Brazil landless leader Cicero Guedes shot dead in Rio
Source: BBC
Brazil landless leader Cicero Guedes shot dead in Rio
A leader of the landless movement in Brazil, Cicero Guedes, has been killed in Rio de Janeiro state.
Mr Guedes, 43, was shot dead on Saturday as he was cycling home.
He was killed near a former sugar plant which members of the landless movement, or MST, have occupied.
Non-governmental organisations say the number of landless activists killed over the past years has fallen but that the number of death threats issued against them has almost tripled.
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Google translation:
National - Cicero Guedes one of the MST leadership in northern Rio de Janeiro is assassinated in Fields
January 26, 2013
By the newsroom
A leader of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) in the municipality of Campos dos Goytacazes in northern Rio, Cicero Guedes, was found dead today (26), with several shots through the body. According to the delegate Geraldo Rangel, who investigates the case, Guedes found in Flora Road, a small road linking the Plant Cambahyba the BR-356.
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Cicero was born in Alagoas, it was cane cutter and coordinated the MST occupation of the mill, which is a complex of seven farms totaling 3,500 hectares. This was considered unproductive latifundia, according to federal judge's decision Dario Machado Ribeiro Junior, released in junho.A area belonged to the deceased Heli Ribeiro Gomes, former deputy governor of Rio bionic, and is now controlled by his heirs. Cicero Guedes was seated since 2002 in Brave Ranch in northern Rio de Janeiro, in the settlement Zumbi dos Palmares, but continued to struggle for agrarian reform. It was a reference in the construction of agroecological knowledge both among fellow Movement as well as between students and professors from the University of North Fluminense.
On the plot, he developed techniques of agroecology, with a diversity of plants, respecting nature and taking advantage of all that she could give. He began by planting your hedge of thrush, which saw visually enhance your property and also get a good source of income. Cicero was also known for its bananas, found in many parts of the plot, intercropped with legumes, corn and species frutíferas.Os grew up watching children grow and experience learned from his father that the food produced in agroecology are superior to the supermarket/
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