Stories of Paraná - ABC "Landless" '(I)

Stories of Paraná - ABC "Landless" '(I)

ABC of "landless" '(I)
Samuel Guimarães da Costa
Anyone today can believe that, for over 50 years, in Paraná, where about two thirds of its territory were not occupied economically, as the cry of "landless" was heard to the highest authorities of the country?
For verily I say unto you that it happened, and the clamor in the form of collective requirement advantage of a handful of mestizos herded into the hinterlands of Northern Parana ahead agricultural occupation that now famous English firm of colonization and road Iron promoted in the decade of the 30s in the region of Londrina. And the curious thing is that the application of the "landless" was done in verse, in the form of ABC, collected in 1940 - so there are exactly 53 years - the true author, former frontiersman and repentista Júlio Alves Machado personally by this journalist who here speaks to you, then twenty years of age, the most sensational story that has ever done in his entire life.
With the passage of time it looms large in the memory.

In fact, in 1940, six years after the creation of Londrina, hired in that city to the IBGE census of the population between the Rivers Paranapanema, Paraná and Ivaí, which are now more than fifty cities called the Northeast, also known North Brand new. The region was still covered with virgin forests, whose precarious trails traverse the horse for two months, accompanied by experienced guide put at our disposal by the late "Captain" Teimo Ribeiro, who administered on behalf of Government Manoel Ribas former Brazilian Finance (today Paranavaí). Few people know that this farm, previously belonging to the grant Braviaco, had as one of its dealers the gaucho Lindolfo Collor, among others, the timing of large grants of land made vacant during the First Republic and canceled after the 1930 Revolution. Today, a trip on horseback through the backlands is possible only in the Amazon - and look there! What-ever Northeast Paraná, where the soil is composed of sandstone Caiuá was devastated and is in the process of desertification. It was not so when we have come in 1940 when the population census cabocla extremely scarce and scattered, lived by the riverside in palm huts, as dirty animals, frightened to move continuously as evidence of the opening of roads and properties agricultural, denouncing civilization, approached them.

The author of the ABC, already mentioned, who collect this gem, an elderly, gray-haired, bearded,
outside the few who prospered at the time, having a site on the outskirts of Mandaguari.
The collected material, as we know, is still widely used in the folklores of the Brazilian Northeast
how old form of popular music, usually anonymous, inherited from Spain and Portugal at the time of Cologne.
Incidentally, the Chamber says Luiz Krab, a scholar on the subject: "All the famous singers in writing an ABC timbravam rare and unusual is the fact, worthy of remembrance, without the honors of the ABC"
From simply reading the piece I called "ABC landless" it appears that the applicants were claiming exposed and, on receiving orders from state authorities to leave the land they occupied an area close to the Serra do Padlock cut today by calling Coffee highway, the 376, and the Central Railroad of Paraná, bathed in the rivers and Good Bufadeira for sign cited in ABC dejuüo Alves Machado.
As our space is limited, this chronicle divided into two parts, so that the reader can appreciate in the next edition, tomorrow, the full text of ABC commented here.

Samuel Guimarães da Costa, journalist and writer


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.