The report “Conflicts in rural Brazil 2023″, from the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), shows that Mato Grosso has 51 conflicts in the countryside related to land, water and work, last year. Across the country, there were 2,203 cases like these. In the ranking among the States that form the Legal Amazon, it had the lowest number. (See the ranking below)
The report states that 21 of the land conflicts involved indigenous people, five involved landless people and two involved quilombolas. The Central-West region — which is also made up of Mato Grosso — ranks third as the one with the most conflicts over agrarian issues, totaling 353.
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According to the report, the conflicts in Mato Grosso involved 20,660 people, including indigenous people, quilombolas, settlers, landless people, squatters and rubber tappers. The report also shows that the State had an average of 94 conflicts, from 2017 to 2023.
“The lack of titling of quilombos, demarcation of indigenous territories, allocation of public lands and expropriation of large estates for Agrarian Reform, as well as the failure to carry out free, prior and informed consultations, is what makes the three levels of executive governments are categorized as omissive and conniving”says an excerpt from the report.
Among the conflicts highlighted by the CPT are one in the Enawenê-Nawê, Adowinã and Rio Preto Indigenous Land, located in the municipalities of Juína, Comodoro and Sapezal, involving around 584 indigenous people; and another in a settlement between the municipalities of Tapurah and Itanhangá, which involves approximately 240 settlers.
The document also shows that the conflicts involved six death threats, in the municipalities of Jaciara (2), Santa Terezinha (3) and São Félix do Araguaia (1). According to the document, in 261 incidents of violence, the State is among the agents that caused the most violence to the people of the countryside, waters and forests in 2023.
One of the studies presented in the report shows that the Human and Earth Rights Forum (FDHT) and the CPT reported a brutal action by the Military Police Rural Patrol at Campamento Renascer, Gleba Mestre I, municipality of Jaciara, in October 2023. At least ten workers were injured while working and were surprised by the police action.
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The 38th edition of the report is the result of the efforts of CPT pastoral agents, who work in rural communities throughout the country. The document also addresses investigations into complaints and news carried out by the team of documentalists at the Dom Tomás Balduíno Documentation Center (Cedoc) at the throughout the year.
