FILE PHOTO OF LANDLESS MOVEMENT PEASANT FARMERS DURING PROTEST IN BRAZIL, 2003-07-11 (photo)

File photo showing peasant farmers from the rural Landless Movement (MST) hoist their machetes, sickels, axes, hoes and customary red flags during at a farm owned by former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, on September 13, 2000. Police arrested a leader of Brazil's landless movement, Jose Rainha Jr. on July 11, 2003, who has orchestrated a new wave of occupations of farm and ranch land. The MST has stepped up land grabs and occupations in recent weeks, raising the prospect of confrontations with land owners. MST activists want land redistributed to poor peasants and are pushing Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil's first working-class President, to hasten land reforms. REUTERS/Jamil Bittar/FILE