Attacks in Mato Grosso inaugurate paramilitarism, the terrorist armed force of the fascist landowners.
"Criminal organizations promote armed acts of sabotage against the Brazilian state at the behest of the backward national agrarian elite," writes João Negrão.
By João Negrão
The videos circulating on social media, which Brasil 247 reproduces.
A news report this Sunday shows the "inaugural class" of
Paramilitaryism that emerges fueled and financed by the agrarian elite.
national identity at its most retrograde and fascist level. That's all.
It was missing. Terrorism in its rawest form.
The images show a group of about ten armed men and
Hooded men attacking a toll booth and a concessionaire's service station.
BR 163 highway, the West Route, between the municipalities of Lucas do Rio Verde and
In Sorriso, Mato Grosso, they threw Molotov cocktails at toll booths and vehicles belonging to the concessionaire. A station belonging to the state-owned MTPar was also attacked.
The episode demonstrates that the acts of sabotage against the Brazilian state, which
It began with attacks on the electoral process and institutions, and evolved into road blockades and the occupation of surrounding areas.
From the army barracks, those dissatisfied with defeat turned to armed and clandestine actions; terrorism, in short.
I lived in Mato Grosso for 27 years and there I was a reporter, editor, and head of...
Reporter and editor-in-chief of the state's main media outlets. During the 80s and 90s, especially, I covered agrarian conflicts, the invasion of indigenous lands by large landowners, gold miners and loggers, the extractive frenzy (from timber to minerals), the activities of organized crime, and the horrors of hired gunmen in their various forms.
While in that period the actions of armed groups were almost entirely focused on the struggle for land and natural resources, what we see now is a terrorist act, an attack with a purely political motive.
As they find no support in the Armed Forces, whose commanders disdainfully watch the horde of ridiculous people on their borders (except for the Bolsonaro-supporting generals, like Braga Neto), the
representatives of the fascist landowners who finance blockades and
Occupied groups begin to organize their own armies.
CACs (Shooting and Collector Clubs) are the main
cells of the armed force of the large landowners. It is no coincidence that, in Mato Grosso
In general, they are scattered along the roads, in rural areas, in
generally close to farms belonging to Bolsonaro supporters, with
giant flagpoles for the national flag and large panels in their
Gatekeepers praising the fascist leader.
Mato Grosso has a wonderful people, but it is ruled by an elite that contains a despicable sediment. If three or four decades ago the dominant fascist elite was that farmer without superstructure, now he has been replaced by the so-called "rural producer," a member of "agribusiness." The simple farmer has become a rural producer and agribusiness, a euphemism for large landholdings.
Not even the left realizes that one of its main agendas, the
land reform was surpassed by general admiration (even from herself,
(on the left) by the so-called agribusiness. This narrative – more than that,
this ingredient of ideological domination – buries an agenda, which in
It's true, it's a capitalist agenda, but in agrarian Brazil and
Landowners believe land reform is "a communist thing."
It's important to reflect on these points, because what we are...
Watching it now, with the reported attacks, it's nothing more and nothing less.
That's the usual horror perpetrated by Brazilian large landowners. Except that
Currently, their actions are blatantly political and terrorist.
* This is an opinion article, the responsibility of the author, and does not reflect the opinion of Brasil 247.
