BRAZIL | Tuesday, 4 June 2013 | Views [670] | View Smaller Image
Children from Quilombo Tiririca dos Crioulos. Living on a land without legal guarantees of ownership, these people survive by farming and ranching family in the semi-arid region of Pernambuco state, northeastern Brazil. Today spend the biggest period of drought in the last 30 years and live almost exclusively on government assistance. Meanwhile, the Brazilian National Congress, composed mostly of landowners and evangelicals, want to change the Constitution and take to himself the power of demarcation of indigenous lands and quilombolas (ex-slave), now exercised by the Government.
