Report and analyze the article in regard to the implications of Agrarian reform and land distribution in Brazil.

February 8, 2012

The history of land reform in Brazil to this day remains one of the major unsolved problem since the colonial era. Indeed, during the 18th century, Brazil, a Portuguese colony still has not experienced the social movements that democratizing access to land and that have changed the face of Europe, as presented today. In the 19th century, the specter that spreads across Europe and served to accelerate social progress has not crossed the Atlantic Ocean and affects Brazil with its large concentration of land but unevenly distributed among populations. While, unlike the United States, which, during the colonization of the territories of northern and central-west, settled the problem of access to land, the colonization of land in Brazil have continued to follow the old latifundium model, dominated by the old rural oligarchy. The 1930 revolution that overthrew the old coffee-based oligarchy , has deeply encourages the process of industrialization and by same time recognized the legal rights of urban workers, and also the state was given a leading role in the economic process with the recommendation not to intervene accordingly in the agrarian area. At the end of World War II, Brazil returned to democracy has made its transformation process of accelerated industrialization and urbanization. The agrarian question, which has emerged