Brazil's three dilemmas

The Landless Workers' Movement (MST) are fighting to for land rights in Brazil

BBC Radio 4's Crossing Continents was broadcast on Thursday, 14 August, and Monday, 18 August, 2003.

When the left wing firebrand Lula Da Silva came to power he promised to champion the Brazilian poor.

But can he deliver?

Seven months into his presidency, Linda Pressly looked at three dilemmas facing Latin America's biggest nation.

In the wild west, she met landless squatters impatient for change.

In the state of Sao Paolo, she asked whether Brazil's revolutionary approach to Aids has really been paying off.

Finally she travelled to Brasilia to find out how inmates in some of the most squalid prisons on earth are fighting for human rights courtesy of the British National Lottery.

Reporter: Linda Pressly
Producer: Lucy Ash
Editor: Hugh Levinson