Breaking down the fences of the large estates was not
as difficult as fighting the technological packages of
the transnationals," Huli recounts as he sits in his
kitchen and pours hot water into the mate we share
while his son romps around the house. He says the
campesinos of Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement
(MST, for the Portuguese initials) dreamed for years of
reclaiming their land, believing that it would solve
all their problems: food for their children, a
dignified life of hard work on the farm, education,
health, and housing. However, the reality would prove
much more difficult, for surprises they had never
imagined lay ahead.