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If you drive in the Brazilian countryside, you're likely to see the broad fields where Brazil's big export surplus in agriculture is produced. Brazil produces and exports soybeans, coffee and sugar, among other products. The surplus generated by the sale of these products has helped fund the new president's program to better feed the people at the bottom of the country's economic ladder.
If you drive more than an hour, you'll also surely see encampments. Some of them are huge complexes of hovels made with a few dusty, irregular boards and tarpaulins, packed close along the highway. Laundry hangs over a fence to dry. A man with no front teeth eyes your car as you pass. And there's a big red flag signifying the Landless Agricultural Workers Movement (MST).
In July, MST's leader, Joao...