{"id":2104,"date":"2025-11-13T12:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlinepeoplesnews.com\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2025-11-13T12:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:27:06","slug":"la-via-campesina-visits-brazils-mst-camp-to-build-global-solidarity-for-climate-and-food-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlinepeoplesnews.com\/?p=2104","title":{"rendered":"La V\u00eda Campesina Visits Brazil\u2019s MST Camp to Build Global Solidarity for Climate and Food Sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bel\u00e9m do Par\u00e1, Brazil \u2013 13 November 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

With songs, shared meals, and the red flags of struggle fluttering in the humid Amazonian air, a diverse international delegation of La V\u00eda Campesina<\/em> \u2014 representing peasants and small farmers from the United States, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Haiti, Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Brazil, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Niger, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zimbabwe, Nepal, Thailand, Tunisia, and Morocco \u2014 visited the Abril Vermelho<\/em> encampment of Brazil\u2019s Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra<\/em> (MST) in Bel\u00e9m, Par\u00e1. The visit, infused with solidarity and purpose, formed part of collective preparations for COP30 and the upcoming Peoples\u2019 Summit<\/em> in Bel\u00e9m \u2014 not as a side event, but as a living expression of the struggles that make climate justice a reality.<\/p>\n

The gathering was not a mere field trip. It was a meeting between movements that have turned resistance into daily practice \u2014 farmers who have fought eviction and hunger with the same hands that now sow food and dignity. The Abril Vermelho<\/em> camp, once the site of a vast monoculture plantation of African oil palm managed by the corporation Dempasa, now stands as proof of what organized communities can reclaim from the ashes of agribusiness failure. When the plantation collapsed in the 1990s after the deadly amarilleo fatal<\/em> disease wiped out its palms and Dempasa went bankrupt in 2000, the land lay abandoned. By 2003, MST families had begun to camp nearby, and a year later, they occupied the unproductive estate \u2014 transforming what was once a corporate ruin into a living community.<\/p>\n