phases.[6] 6 The petitioners contend that the fear and insecurity in the communities threatened with dislocation is palpable. 21. The petitioners assert that the dispossessions already effected, were forced evictions that moved the dislocated families to areas far from the sea and other waterways. No diagnosis or systematic analyses were done to examine the socioeconomic and cultural situation, the interests and specific needs of those families, farming practices, economic activities, the work force used, the appropriation of natural resources, etc. The petitioners make the point that nothing was done to preserve the conditions necessary for economic activity to continue.[7] 7 22. The petitioners[8] 8 affirm that between 1982 and 1985, Area I was home to some 503 families, distributed among 48 communities (or settlements). Of these, 312 families from 31 settlements were moved to “agrovilas” – housing built by the Alcântara Launch Center-, while those that remained are being threatened with forced eviction. Area I is the municipality’s coastal region and is where the Spaceport’s installations were built. 23. The petitioners report that to minimize the adverse consequences of their dislocation, the communities that were moved off their lands requested various measures from the Ministry of Aeronautics, which pledged to honor most of the requests. According to the petitioners, three years after the pledge not one of the requests had been honored. 24. The petitioners assert that more than 30 of the dislocated communities[9]9 were moved to 7 agricultural districts or “agrovilas”. The petitioners contend that a number of communities were settled in the same “agrovila”, and yet the place bore the name of only one of the communities settled there. This caused conflict within the area and was completely insensitive to the cultural origins of those communities.[10] 10 For the petitioners, the move to the “agrovilas” made the lives of the relocated families much more difficult: they now have no place to fish; hunting is difficult; beaches and waterways are far away, and the CLA restricts access to natural resources. 6 The first phase (which corresponds to the third phase since establishment of the CLA) involves 261 families from 16 communities, which includes relocated communities and communities that received additional families. According to the CLA, 158 families will be moved. They will be from the communities of Mamuna (56 families), Águas Belas (08 families), Caiuaua (02 families), Baracatatiua (26 families), São Francisco (02 families), Barbosa (02 families), Pacoval (02 families), Corre Prata (01 family), Brito (28 families), Itapera (19 families) and Mamuninha (12 families). In the second phase (which is the fourth phase since the start of the CLA project), 215 families will be relocated. They will come from the communities of Folhau (20 families), Santa Maria (66 families), Tacaua (09 families), Bom Viver (12 families), Uru-Grande (05 families), Uru-Mirim (02 families), Arapiranga (01 family), Canelatiua (48 families), Retiro (14 families), Mato Grosso (04 families), Centro Alegre (03 families), Rio Verde (01 family) and Vista Alegre (30 families). 7 Data from the report of the Anthropological Advisory Office of the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office, dated, October 6, 1999. 8 Data from the Companhia de Colonização do Nordeste (COLONE). 9 In the first phase of the CLA’s establishment, which was between July and December 1986, 112 families from 10 communities were moved and settled in agrovilas built in the area known as Fazenda Norcasa. The communities moved were: Espera and Barro Alto (11 families), Ponta Seca, Curuca and Laje (13 families), Pepital (38 families), Cajueiro (33 families), Só Assim, Boa Vista and Norcasa (17 families). In the second phase, between November 1987 and December 1988, 200 families from 21 communities were moved and settled in 02 agrovilas built in the area, which included part of the Rio Grande and Mutiiti fazendas and part of the Returned Lands VIII. The communities moved to the agrovila named “Marudá” were: 100 families from the communities of Sozinho, Baracatatiua, São Raimundo, Jabaquara, Curuçá, Jardim, Santa Cruz, Titica, Porto, Santa Rosa, Pirarema, Marudá, Santo Antonio, Ponta, Jenipaúba, Camarajó, Capijuba, part of Águas Belas, Corre Prata and Ladeira (a few families). The communities moved to the agrovila called “Peru” were: Sozinho, Santa Cruz, Titica, Porto, Cavém, Peru, Camarajó, Capijuba, part of Águas Belas and Corre Prata. 10 This is the case with the “agrovila” Só Assim, which was established by the forced convergence of the communities of Só Assim, Boa Vista and Norcasa. The “agrovila” Marudá was formed by forcibly combining 20 different communities. 4