"The Land Burns" ""Brazil, 80 millions of habitants..."" "they are distributed in a territory of some... 8 million 500 thousand square kilometers" "but not very equitably... 80 per cent of the lands..." "it belong to 2 per cent of the population." "Second country of America and the most modern capital a Land of oblivion and of Death it is known as Nord East the polygonal... of droughts..." ""Here, where the average..." "of life reaches 27 years..."" "the large estate and the drought force to the exodus of the peasants" ""Here, where it waits for constant"" "one rain that does not come" "Where for to fertilize the land it have to deliver life..." "Here where the hope..." "...is the drought doesn't come" "but inexorably..." "it always arrive..." ""Juan Amaro, 35 years." "Six years ago"" "he found this rancho abandoned..." "I came with my wife and eleven children of them only 4 survive." "Already he lived several droughts but this one seems to be the hardest six months without rain." "And now woman what we can do?" "All the land is dry..." "Lets get out of here woman..." "I go with the child for water" "Where is the water?" "There is no water All is dry..." ""Mother, there are dead animals everywhere"" ""The people go away." "They leave the lands, mother."" "Sit down there my boy" ""We go, somewhere We go my people..."" "We going to travel very long." "We go..." "Let's go." "Let's go..." "ALLIANCE FOR THE PROGRESS" ""Twenty-three million in a polygon zone,"" "The North-east..." "...the shame of America" "Generator of armies of unemployed Where nobody purchase does not even sell because nothing is for to buy or to sell" "Where every hat it means a dead peasant and every peasant one catalogue of diseases." "Where every 42 seconds a child dies... 85 each hour... and 2040 each day..." ""Please, a currency or a water..."" "The way gets longer when THE LAND BURNS" ""and this "Juan without land" he will continue looking for"" "...one place in the world to preserve... four of the eleven children that he had..." "TRANSLATION:" "Mauricio Peredo"