'Salgado's stunning photographs of Brazil's landless rural population (estimated at nearly five million) includes an impassioned and biting preface by Saramago, three poems by Chico Buarque, and extensive captions. Ably translated. A beautiful and disturbing book'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/Presents over one hundred images taken between 1980 and 1996 to commemorate the massacre of landless farmhands in the state of Par in April 1996

Product Description: In the early 1940s as the conflict between the Axis and the Allies spread worldwide, the U.S. State Department turned its attention to Axis influence in Latin America. As head of the Office of Inter-American Affairs, Nelson Rockefeller was charged with cultivating the region’s support for the Allies while portraying Brazil and its neighbors as dependable wartime partners...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

'Salgado's stunning photographs of Brazil's landless rural population (estimated at nearly five million) includes an impassioned and biting preface by Saramago, three poems by Chico Buarque, and extensive captions. Ably translated. A beautiful and disturbing book'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/Presents over one hundred images taken between 1980 and 1996 to commemorate the massacre of landless farmhands in the state of Par in April 1996