Land Clearing and Idle Lands – Folha de S. Paulo, November 17, 1986
A pioneer is to an ordinary farmer as a hero is to a simple, honest, and hardworking citizen.
The Semi-Agrarian Reformists, Those Useful Innocents – Folha de S. Paulo, November 5, 1986
First of all, consider that communist tactics often depend on forming alliances with opposing groups — a strategy they refer to as the “fellow traveler” tactic.
A Cunning, Naive, and Laughable Little Ploy – Folha de S. Paulo, October 24, 1986
In the eyes of non-rural Brazil, the great moral strength of the farming class lies in their honesty and dependability.
PT: A Destabilizing Factor – Folha de S. Paulo, July 26, 1986
That said, how can anyone deny that the PT is undermining the political and social institutions of the regime that arose from the political opening?
The Inauthenticity of a Constituent Assembly Without a Plebiscite – Folha de S. Paulo, June 20, 1986
If the confiscatory Agrarian Reform plan is approved by referendum — in violation of the Seventh and Tenth Commandments of God’s Law, “Thou shalt not steal” and “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods” — and if it causes irreparable social and economic damage to our homeland, then at least President Sarney will not face History alone bearing the terrible responsibility for this catastrophe.
Land Invasions, Agrarian Reform, and Related Issues – Folha de S. Paulo, April 21, 1986
On the day when an organization like the TFP—acting lawfully and in an orderly manner in all its activities, as proven by over 4,000 certificates issued by sheriffs, mayors, and other municipal authorities—could no longer exercise its right to defend Christian civilization in Brazil against socialism and communism (of which agrarian reform is an explicit goal and land invasions are a sneaky and condemnable way to get there), the political “opening” would have ended, and a red ideological dictatorship would already be taking root among us.
Toward Upheaval, If Not Gunpowder – Folha de S. Paulo, February 25, 1986
How can the CNBB, an essentially spiritual body, “demand” from the head of state—who is responsible for governing the temporal realm—a reform for which, under the Constitution, he is only accountable to the nation?
The Blind Leading the Blind – Folha de S. Paulo, January 6, 1986
The multitudes are exhausted from their work and sufferings. They are worn out from being constantly over-stimulated by the media into paroxysmal emotions in all their leisure hours. They are tired of treading the fearful maze of chaotic events that have no relationship with the day-to-day religious, cultural, political, social and economic life of our modern existence.
No to a Collegial Dictatorship – Folha de S. Paulo, December 4, 1985
The State has no authority to act against God’s Law. In fact, if the State or a Constituent Assembly does so, it can only cause harm. Since everything that defies God’s Law disrupts the natural order, it damages the very realities it affects. Following God’s will is the foundation of all true success.
Even This Has Happened – Folha de S. Paulo, February 27, 1985
by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira At the old Law School on São Francisco Square, where I graduated, it was fashionable for professors to describe themselves as eclectic. When addressing major questions, a professor would display his modernity by first parading the various juridical schools of thought, only to end by disagreeing with all […]