On May 22, 2016, the bodies of the couple Luiz Carlos da Silva and Cleidiane Alves Teodoro were found floating on the Candeira River, in the Vale do Jamari region, in Buritis, Rondônia. The victims were stabbed and head shot. According to the League of Poor Peasants (LCP), Luiz Carlos da Silva was the leader of the Luiz Carlos settlement and it was allegedly for this reason that the couple were assassinated. This encampment is located in the area of Fazenda Fluminense, in Monte Negro, occupation that generates tensions between large landowners and the peasants, who have been struggling for agrarian reform in the region. The League of Poor Peasants (LCP), of which Luis Carlos was a member, is a social movement that organizes landless rural workers in the struggle for agrarian reform and for the social justice in the rural areas.