Latin American Civil Resistance and Brazilian Landless Workers Movement: The Concept of Gandhian Nonviolence and Its Uses
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https://doi.org/10.31305/rrijm.2022.v07.i10.017Keywords:
Latin America, Civil, Social, Movement, Brazil, MSTAbstract
Latin America and the Caribbean countries of a total of 33 countries spread over the southern longitude are great example of diversity. These countries are witness to many and many types of experience socially, economically and politically. Politically, these countries have gained many experiences from the historical point of view. It also includes the existence of violent and non-violent fight for political democracy. In some countries a fight also fought for social and economic justice in democracies. In the present article, the study of non-violent fighting in the mass movement in Latin America has been done. Apart from this, a special study has been done on the technology of landless workers’ movement of Brazil’s 1984, important in Latin American countries.in this article, this important and comprehensive mass movement has been studied from the perspective of Gandhi’s technic of movement.
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