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Meaning of cangaceiros



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cangaceiros
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Rural bandits of the Brazilian northeast of wandering and fugitive life devoted above all to the theft and looting of the estates of landowners from the mid-nineteenth century until the 1940s. Good riders and gunmen, sometimes also acted against the poor on behalf of the farmers.

  










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