Settlements as Pacts Among (Dis)Interests Within the Democratic Governments

Abstract

Land reform settlements were treated by democratic governments as a social pact for the transition and, from their birth, have been transformed into a measure for attenuating social conflicts, increasingly distancing themselves from any project for agrarian reform. The FHC government, during which “market-based agrarian reform” was implanted, and Lula, who left intact the neoliberal model inherited during the 1990s, merit special attention.