O Movimento Master e o Acampamento Capão da Cascavel

Bases históricas dos movimentos de luta pela terra no Norte do Rio Grande do Sul – 1960-62

Abstract

The article analyzes aspects of the context in which some of the actions of the Master in the north of Rio Grande do Sul were developed; centralizes its focus on Capão da Cascavel Camp for having been central to the actions of said social movement and in a scenario of great expression of the contradictions of the ownership of the land in the southern state. It uses bibliographical references, documents and news from newspapers to substantiate the importance of said camp; concludes that the Master condensed an effervescent context of demands and pressures for the land, involved multiple institutions, but with the centrality of the public sphere personified in the governor Brizola. We conclude that the actions of the governor in favor of agrarian reform were fundamental to the sequence of this process in the history of the struggles for land by small farmers and indigenous people.