Projeto Terranova : entre o ideal e a prática no processo de colonização recente em Mato Grosso nas décadas de 1970 e 1980

Abstract

This thesis addresses the implementation process of the Terranova project in the context of colonizations in the north of Mato Grosso, examining the relation between this process and the national agrarian demands, as well as it’s insertion amid the games of political and economic interests on the scene at that time. The Terranova project was implanted in July 1978, in union lands, on the margins of the federal highway BR-163, on the north of Mato Grosso, to settle the landless agriculturists expelled of Kaingang indigenous territories, in Rio Grande do Sul, where they were in tenancy and/or squatter situations. More specifically, in this thesis, we analyze the incongruity between the idealized project and the Project executed. Terranova Terranova resulted of a new methodology for official colonization projects in Mato Grosso, with the participation of the Federal Government, through the INCA, and the private initiative, in this case, the mixed agricultural cooperative Canarana Ltda. (COOPERCANA). According to the regulations that made the Terranova Project possible, the COOPERCANA would participate as a private enterprise, and the lands would be pass to you name, being responsible for the appointment of the settled agriculturists. During implantation Project process, the cooperative suffered complaints, resulting in the intervention of the National Security Council and the revocation of the established agreement. From then on, the COOPERCANA became a service provider and INCRA was responsible for name the land. These changes associated with the slowness of the regulatory body to send the titles are resulting in a financial crisis for the cooperative and the colonist's dependence on the colonizer, suffering a lot of types of violence in the “new place”. These questions are related with the discovery of gold in the vicinity of the colonization area made the Terranova Project go through different transformations during the execution process, formulating a project reconfiguration and consequently a very different result from the initial proposal.