We forward a video that was made in celebration to the retake of Enilson Ribeiro settlement that took place on April 2018. The peasants were expelled from the area by the landlords on August 26, 2016, after resisting a coward military siege imposed by police forces colluded with landlord´s henchmen for weeks. The video shows images of the siege made by the military, and also the attacks, including machinegun fire from a helicopter, but it also shows the high morale and resistance of the peasants, as well as images of the retake.
One day after the retake, on the First of May, the General Commander and the subcommander of the Military Police of São Miguel do Guaporé and one representative of the National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (Incra) from Pimenta Bueno were in the settlement to threaten the peasants. They were threatened to be subject of ownership repossession and arrest.
Ismauro Fatimo dos Santos was a supporter of the struggle for land on this area. He was murdered on July 22 by henchmen of the landlords near Enilson Ribeiro settlement and his daughter was seriously wounded as reported on an article we published.
The Bom Futuro farm is 11.500 ha big and is a result of illegal ocupation of public land by Augusto Nascimento Tulha, who is a former military medic.
