Luciana Vasconcelos
Reporter - Agência Brasil

Brasília – Leaders of the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) had a meeting, Wednesday (13), with members of the Chamber of Deputies, to talk about the National March for Agrarian Reform that will happen from May 1-17.

11 thousand manifestants are expected to gather in Goiânia and march toward Brasília. The objective is to press government for assurance of resources for the agrarian reform.

This month, the government released US$156 million (R$400 million) for the Ministry of Agrarian Development. The Executive Secretary of the Ministry, Guilherme Cassel, affirmed that this amount will allow settlement of over 35 thousand families until September of this year.

Translation: Andréa Alves