Called the Agrarian Reform Documentation and Archive Center, the project, according to the person in charge, started around 1996 or 1997, when the municipal archive began to collect documentation from UCPs and other structures, such as unions.

"At the initiative, at the time, of the Cooperativa Oficina Verde Esperança [now extinct], which gave a monetary value to the municipal council so that it could have a memory project linked to the Agrarian Reform", she recalls.

Since then and until now, Idalete Lebre indicated, the Montemor-o-Novo Municipal Archive has received "about 65 documentary funds" from old UCPs from the districts of Évora, Beja, Portalegre, Setúbal and Santarém.

The part that concerns the governing bodies, cooperators, accounting or production is in files in some rooms that were the cells of the male wing of the old prison of the District of Montemor-o-Novo, where the municipal archive now operates.

"There is, then, another set of documentation that has more to do with the collection of other types of materials", smaller and consisting of "posters, photographs, bibliographic material, stickers, newspapers", she highlights.

Drawing attention to the "interest from the historical point of view" of the documentation, the coordinator of the municipal archive emphasizes that this repository allows research on that period at the "social, economic and political" level.

"Each citizen will be able to access [the documentation] for research, as they do in all national archives", because "the idea is to be able to preserve this memory and make it accessible", she stresses.

These and other documents are available for consultation in person at the municipal archive and their respective catalogs are also accessible through the municipality's website.

The Agrarian Reform started at the end of 1974, in the 'aftermath' of April 25, with the first experiences of land occupation, but it was the following year that it gained dimension and strength, with the motto "Land to those who work it".

But the "revolution" in the fields began to change in 1977, when the parliament approved the "Barreto Law", by António Barreto, then Minister of Agriculture of the I Constitutional Government, led by Mário Soares (PS).

The diploma imposed limits on the Agrarian Reform, opened the doors to the end of the UCPs and to a long process of land evictions and returns and compensations, which later gained momentum with the governments of the Democratic Alliance (AD).

On August 20, 1988, the Government led by Cavaco Silva (PSD) approved the new Agrarian Reform Framework Law, which became known as the "Latifúndio Law".

The process of regularizing the use of land expropriated or nationalized within the scope of the Agrarian Reform was only completed in 2000, by the then Minister of Agriculture Capoulas Santos (PS).

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