Rural Entrepreneurs, Modernization of Agriculture and Violence in the Brazilian Rural Environment

Abstract

The article analyses how the rural policies of the Brazilian military government responded to some of the main demands of business sectors, organized in very active associations during the period before the coup. In its first part, the article shows the claims and the channels where they were made public. Then, it analyzes the military regime policies towards the rural sector, both in terms of repression and the making of rules and institutions that allowed a deep transformation during the 1970s. Finally, it shows how the repression was imposed, how the policies developed and how the violence continuity brought sensible obstacles to the possibilities of effective policies of transition justice.