Political Drops for reflection: A Middling Political Environment in the Countryside

One of the great reforms that can not be made feasible in the country is the agrarian reform, demanded by abolitionists like Joaquim Nabuco and André Rebouças, from the time of the formal liberation of the slaves through an institutional act signed by Princess Isabel. Not even in the governments of the PT coalition, despite the sensitivity to the problem, we have managed to advance sufficiently in this field, possibly due to the constraints imposed by the infamous "class conciliation" that allowed the rise to power of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, But imposed some agreements. The picture now tends to aggravate as we find among the articulators of the recent institutional coup that occurred in the country, two strong nuclei, identified with the latifundio, as the benches of the bull and the berlinda or slavery.

(José Luiz Gomes, political scientist, in an editorial published here on the blog)