Mourir de faim au Brésil

It has not rained for five years in North Eastern Brazil. Rivers dry out, cattle die, villages are empty. Whole families are threatened with death, and the mortality rate for infants is as high as 25%. Yet it is no fatality, but rather the result of land ownership and water supply confiscated by rich landlords, while poor peasants have no choice but leave. The Church demands agrarian reform while the goverment prefers to set up a haphazard network of water supply. People migrate to big cities hoping to find work. They end up in shanty towns, beg on the streets or scavenge scrap. There are outbursts of violenc such as looting of supermarkets, thefts, demonstrations.