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May 27, 2016

Brazil: Interim Gov't to Lift Limits on Foreign Land Ownership
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In Brazil, the interim government has announced plans to abandon the
current limits on foreign land ownership, clearing the way for land
grabs by multinational corporations. The interim government took power
earlier this month after the Legislature voted to suspend President
Dilma Rousseff and begin impeachment proceedings-a move that a growing
number of residents and Latin American countries are calling a coup.
This comes as Brazil's powerful Landless Workers Movement, known as MST,
has promised to launch a new wave of land occupations. Brazil already
has vastly unequal land ownership, with 1 percent of the population
owning nearly half of all the land.


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