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This is an extended interview by Aleida Guevara with Joao Pedro Stedile, the leader of the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), discussing the struggle of the landless in Brazil that is today one of Latin America's largest and most successful social movements. Stedile describes how unused land is claimed, occupied, and defended by local communities and popular mobilizations.

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This book provides basic background information about one of Latin America's most important contemporary social movements, Movimiento Sin Tierra, which seeks land reform. Physician and social activist Guevara, daughter of the iconic Argentine "Che" Guevara, interviews Brazilian Joao Pedro Stedile, one of the movement's leaders. The first part of the book consists mostly of her interview with Stedile and his account of the origins of this movement, its virtues, and its strengths, while the second part includes interviews with a variety of individuals who describe the impact this movement has had on them. Given that land-both its ownership and use-remains a source of conflict throughout Latin America and that squatting by the dispossessed continues, more information about this movement and its organization ought to be readily available. The subject is fascinating and relevant, but, unfortunately, this book fails to make it so. Lacking passion, style, and balance, it seems too much like a vehicle for propaganda. Any insight one can glean from its pages requires tedious work. Recommended only for large academic libraries.-Catherine Rendon, Savannah, GA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Aleida Guevara is the eldest daughter of Ernesto Che Guevara and Aleida March. She works as a pediatric specialist in childhood allergies in a Havana hospital and is a spokesperson for the anti-globalization movement. Joao Pedro Stedile is the founder of the Landless Movement (MST) in Brazil, one of the most significant and successful social movements in Latin America today.