Conflitos agrários e mercado de terras nas fronteiras do Oeste do Paraná (1843/1960)

Abstract

This research aims to discuss the agrarian conflicts and land market in the western region of Paraná State. Leaving the issue of land disputes at the internal borders is part of the analysis of the case study of Gleba Santa Cruz . A dispute between the Union Colonization Society D Oeste Ltda. and the State of Parana, which happened in 1954. The study of borders in this paper seeks the genesis of the same from the year 1843 and the participation of the State of Parana and colonizing companies in this process, which shaped the institutional form of the land market. Market consolidation of land in the western regions came from the Getúlio Vargas decision to integrate the border areas in the country, promoting the March to the West in order to stimulate the agricultural colonization of these territories. The new agricultural frontier, inserted in the ideals of the national economy has attracted settlers and investment that made the land being valued. Was stimulated, thus, a land market that drew upon himself the interests of economic agents and market for speculative purposes and the state, supported by groups seeking political hegemony by ensuring their economic advantages. It was used in this study primary sources, secondary literature, narratives, public and private. The methodology was understood as a way or procedure of reflection and analysis necessary for the articulation of body concept (or theory) to the actual investigation of the case study of the Gleba Santa Cruz looking at comparative analytic approach to understanding the conflicts over land in the West Paraná. Speculation, concentration and ownership of lands generated later confrontations and conflicts against the settlers, homesteaders and squatters, and used form of understanding to understand that reality, their disputes, conflict and hegemony of local and regional groups. Note that the border violence is understood as the economic process of land occupation. After cleaning the soil made by the settlers or squatters, as stated in this work comes the cleaning promoted by the company colonizing, which was carried out by thugs, gangsters, police, law, and is considered a practice of violence supported by the agencies and bureaucratic institutions of the State of Paraná. Seeing that it was an unequal struggle for land.