The talks are currently in recess after both sides agreed a deal on agrarian reform.
He added that the institutions of government don't work and there is a need for agrarian reform.
Finally, at 12:40, his cream-colored, bulletproof Mercedes-Benz draws up in front of the Department of Agrarian Reform building.
And what has the export boom done for the 200, 000 small producers, the campesinos who were supposed to benefit from the old agrarian reform?
Some see this as a way of forcing the president's allies in the centre to accept that more money should be given to agrarian reform.
But much of the historical agenda of populism, such as agrarian reform and oil nationalisation, had already been carried out by the governments of the fourth republic.
Seventeen-year-old Karina's father is Horacio "Boy" Morales, the man named recently by President Joseph Ejercito Estrada to complete the nation's slow-moving agrarian reform program in four years.
This settlement, where fruit gathering is the only form of production permitted, is part of a program of agrarian reform designated for poor families who depend on the land for survival.
FARC's demands for sweeping agrarian reform and a redistribution of wealth, coupled with an end to unchecked free-market policies, must be unpalatable to Mr Pastrana's centre-right administration and its foreign backers.
They accuse the landless group Mr Rainha was leading in Pontal de Paranapanema of channelling money from the government's National Institute for Agrarian Reform away from the landless families for whom it was intended.
The MST is a social movement whose goal to achieve agrarian reform was coupled with a radical militant ideology and semi-violent action that included road blockades and illegal take over of large pieces of land.
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On taking office in August 2008, he vowed to deliver on land reform - a key issue in a predominantly agrarian economy.
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