Politics and protest: Landless Movement mother and child

An indigenous woman holds her child while trying to resist the advance of Amazonas state policemen who were expelling the woman and some 200 other members of the Landless Movement from a privately-owned tract of land on the outskirts of Manaus, Brazil. This picture originally appeared in the Guardian on 13 March 2008
Illustration: Photograph: Luiz Vasconcelos/ Reuters