THIS STUDY makes a historical review of the Amazon agrarian issue, emphasizing social and land problems during the dictatorial years (conveyancing of public land to private groups, concessions and favouring, "grilagem" (illegal occupancy of land property) fraud, slavery, gunmen etc) as well as in the decades to come, problems which, as the ones before, were never solved. It intends to show the seriousness of the Amazon agrarian issue and the land chaos set up ever since.
Pará; agrarian issue; gunmen
