There were no hostages at the site, to the contrary of reports by the Globo News Network. Yesterday (October 21), at 1:30 p.m., a Via Campesina encampment located at Syngenta’s experimental GMO farm in Santa Tereza do Oeste (Paraná), was attacked by an armed militia. During the massacre, an activist from the Movement of Landless Workers (MST) and member of Via Campesina, Valmir Mota de Oliveira...was killed...[Other] [w]orkers...were seriously injured...Syngenta was using the services of an armed militia which was acting through a front company, NF Security...