Participatory Democracy in Brazil: Socioeconomic and Political Origins by J. Ricardo Tranjan

Author:J. Ricardo Tranjan [Tranjan, J. Ricardo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Caribbean & Latin American, Democracy, Political Ideologies, Political Science, World, Geopolitics
ISBN: 9780268093792
Google: Nk8FDgAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 29639425
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Published: 2015-12-17T00:00:00+00:00

The municipal economy consisted of 18 thousand cows and the logging of the remaining native timber. Houses lost their commercial value and commerce was reduced to a bar, a basic grocery store, and two little fabric stores.

On average, ten flatbed trucks with wooden seats (pau-de-arara) left the city each month taking families to the states of Paraná, Rondônia, Mato Grosso, Goiás and Pará. Cattle ranchers planned to transform the downtown square into a cattle-loading station.

In this period, the State Financial Board advised the governor to abolish the municipality and reincorporate it to the city of São Mateus, due to its economic infeasibility. This news spread and all state secretariats had their doors closed to Boa Esperança, making matters worse for everyone.

Small and middle holdings were disappearing, sold to cattle ranchers for very low prices. In order to facilitate acquisitions, cattle farmers recklessly burnt fields, destroying planted areas, expelling men, and replaced them with cows.

This was the lamentable situation of [Boa Esperança] when we were elected to care for the town’s fate, in the two-year administration of 1971–1972. There was only one way to save [the municipality]: guided by the hands of the Almighty, we began community work. This work was interrupted between 1973 and 1976 because my successor did not share this ideology. In 1977, again in control of the municipality’s fate, we reactivated community work, and made it official in order to avoid future interruptions. (Covre 1980, 1–2)

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