PEASANTS’ PLIGHT
Battle for carcase (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) RECIFE, March 24. Dozens Of famished Brazilian peasants yesterday battled among themselves and with vultures for the rotting meat of a steer killed by a snake, the “Jornal do Brazil” news agency reported today. It said that the peasants had just abandoned a vain quest , for food and help at tiie village of Sao Joao, in the drought-stricken state of Pernambuco. While women and children chased away the hungry vultures with shrieks and stones, a contest developed among the starving male peasants, in which the toughest won the largest pieces of meat. Within minutes, nothing but the steer’s skeleton was left, the news agency said. This was the latest in a series of grim incidents reported from north-east Brazil, where some areas have had no rain for more than a year. Eighty per cent of the state of Ceara has recently benefited from torrential raip, but in the villages of Tamborial and Indehendincia, peasants have to walk 15 miles each day to fetch water from a reserve.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32564, 25 March 1971, Page 11
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