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As climate change and the deforestation of the Amazon alters conditions of life across Latin America, it is clear that planetary defense will require an organized mass movement of all working people against the levers of global capital.

In Brazil, there have been two recent parliamentary coups against the Workers' Party and in favor of banks and corporations. Dilma Rousseff was impeached in 2016 and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was prevented from running for president, sequestered, and imprisoned. The electoral coups have resulted in a government without a social base in most of Brazilian society. It does not have a project for the majority or for the nation. It is just a project for international capital, dominated by banks and global corporations. This has led to a government made up of many nuclei of power that, despite internal contradictions, remain in agreement as a unit with regard to the project of capital.

"Nos sentimos orgullosos y victoriosos porque hemos elegido al presidente Lula... En este momento tenemos la oportunidad de realizar una verdadera Reforma Agraria... Para nosotros el enemigo es el latifundio y el gobierno de Lula va a desempeñar un papel fundamental para democratizar la propiedad de la tierra en Brasil... Estamos movidos por la esperanza y la confianza de que es posible otro Brasil". Así saludaba el triunfo de Lula el MST, el movimiento social más importante y combativo de América Latina. ¿Cúales son las claves de su gestación, de su crecimiento, de sus logros? (Envío/DÜI)