Author: Judith Hurley [1]

In: McManus; Schlabach, Relentless Persistence: Nonviolent Action in Latin America [2] (E. IV.1. General and Comparative Studies [3]), pp. 174-196

The author, who founded a US support group for the landless, provides excerpts from her journal of visiting sites of land struggle in 1987. She notes intensified confrontations in 1980s between the landed elite and the landless, who resorted to lawsuits, demonstrations, fasts, vigils, marches, mock funerals and, above all, land occupations.