A questão agrária na faixa de fronteira: o conflito judicial da fazenda Ocoy

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes and discusses the differences, disputes and strategies used on the arguments presented at different legal degrees of jurisdiction and courts, specifically the 4th Region Regional Federal Appellate Court in Porto Alegre (TRF-4), the Superior Court of Justice (STJ), the Federal Supreme Court (STF), INCRA National Institute of Agricultural Reform and the Ocoy real state condemnees , arousing from the legal conflict regarding the condemnation money of such real estate that was expropriated in 1971 by INCRA National Institute of Agricultural Reform. In order to understand the reasons that lead to such expropriation and to the legal dispute that arouse from that, this dissertation presents the land situation on the frontier area related to the creation and the connection between the Brazilian land situation, the legal dispute between the Union and the States, specifically, the State of Parana, in control of the land, and later, the broadening of the land conflict since the second half of the 20th Century in the west of the state of Parana. Sources used for this research were bibliographic references: books, thesis, dissertations, newspapers and papers related to the discussion, and documents issued by legal sources on the condemnation money suit of expropriates against the Brazilian Union. The results obtained in this research aim to verify the arguments used on each legal degree of jurisdiction hereinabove mentioned, INCRA National Institute of Agricultural Reform and the media, in determining the categories in which each expropriate belong to and consequently, if they are victims of the legal system conflict entitled to condemnation money, or guilty with no right to be indemnified by the expropriation of the land.