In the 60s and early 70s, the US government was bent on eliminating the black movement of that country. The civil rights victories put in motion a social and cultural force that turned out to be too radical for the American bosses, especially in the period of the Vietnam War and the inauguration of Richard Nixon. The different tendencies of the black movement were wiped out, from the pacifism of Martin Luther King to the radicalism of the Black Panthers, through Malcom X. Only a few decades later, black youth is decimated by crack and plays a lead role in the social crisis of urban violence. As a result, cities with a predominantly black population, such as Washington, are under a permanent curfew. Blacks live worse today than in the 60´s. They are displaced from jobs by immigrant workers that are forced to work in whatever conditions because they do not have a green card, contrary to the blacks, considered rebels, who can be unionized. In the U.S., coexistence with those black movements that represented organized political expression and give rationality to their demands, would have been better, although difficult, for the construction of a democracy with a social soul. The worst scenario are the disorganized expressions of violent confrontation with police, that leaves some of them as part of the largest incarcerated population in the world, others to vegetate in the drug infested urban ghettos, while another sector of the black population continues the difficult fight to win citizenship. MST Brazil Something similar is occurring today with the landless in Brazil. The well placed elite is dedicated to destroying the movement that seeks to establish citizenship for the most poor, most humble, most massacred people of the country, with all of the weight of their power. The Government, Military Police, the Army and mainstream media unite to attempt to criminalize the most beautiful and meritous social movement in the history of Brazil (Movimento Sem Terra-MST- the Landless Workers' Movement). A movement which, as the United Nations recognized in their last report on the Human Development Index, has waged a fight through which one million people have been given access to the land, despite the opposition of the elite and the government, which for 500 years have concentrated land and protected it by means of violence. In addition: in the settlements created by the landless, there is no child without schooling, the only place in Brazil where this is true. They themselves have formulated and organized the school system, with teachers paid by the local councils and a curriculum drawn up by them, but authorized by the Minister of Education. As stated by José Claudio Todorov, the Ministry Literary Officer: the landless have done more for literacy in Brazil than 500 years of history. It is this movement which the elite are bent on destroying, so that Pará stays as it was. That is, according to the Land Pastoral Service of this state: a zone of the far west, where rural workers were massacred daily, without even being reported in the newspapers. The elite want the rural Guerillas to spread in Brazil, as they have in Colombia. Such is the wish insinuated by General Alberto Cardoso (Cheif Cabinet Minister for Institutional Security of the Presidency of the Republic), who would like to see the rural conflict in Brazil further militarized, when he stated that the landless will "call for other means of action". If Brazil has not become another Colombia in the country, it is no thanks to the Cardosos and their man, Raúl Jungmann (Minister of Agrarian Development), but thanks to the MST. Is this what the assassins of the little democracy that we have constructed want? Is this the wish of the magnates of the press those that, with the sole exceptions of Ultima Hora supported and instigated the military coup, hiding its crimes and acting with it in the destruction of the country? Defending the landless in their fight has become a certification of character in the Brazil of today. Tell me what you think of the landless and I will tell you who you are; such is the struggle between rich and poor, the strong and the weak, workers and speculators, the people and the elite.