Presently, we are observing an alternative form of privatization - the selling-off of vast tracts of agricultural land resources to powerful multinational state and private investors.
In the surroundings of Ribeirão Preto, sugar cane plantations and production sites of multinational companies would expand; land prices would increase and hence pressure rural settlements of local small holders (ibid).
Two weeks prior to his arrest he had helped organize nationwide strikes against the appropriation of rural peasants' land by multinational corporations, but the Attorney General has strenuously denied the two had anything to do with each other.
A fortnight prior to his arrest he had helped organise nationwide strikes against the appropriation of rural peasants' land by multinational corporations, but the Attorney General has strenuously denied the two had anything to do with each other.
He told me he entered the contest on a kind of whim, to see how far he could get, though he also thought that the idea of a multinational crew of colonists landing on Mars could "really bring people together".
Over the past five years, the government of Guatemala has opened up the Mayan Ixil peoples lands to multinational energy companies eager to cash in on the abundant rivers that flow through the territory of the Ixil people.
These fanatics argue the West is out to get them and erase their identity in various forms, from invading their lands as multinational forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, etc., to banning the construction of Islamic minarets in Switzerland, to a Belgian resolution banning face-covering veils.
It has been a violent frontline between multinational interests and indigenous and land rights".
Language departments are tweaking master's degrees so graduates, with a portfolio of cultural knowledge and language skills, can land jobs with multinational companies.
Multinational companies then use the land for palm-oil production, mining or cattle-grazing, while the wood is sold off, according to Patrick Alley, co-founder of Global Witness.
