Ten years later, none of those involved in the massacre of Eldorado dos Carajás, which left 19 landless rural workers murdered and more than 60 wounded after a violent police action by the Military Police to unblock state highway PA-150, is in prison. On that day, three thousand landless workers shut down highway PA-150 and were marching on their way to Marabá to demand the expropriation of the Macaxeira Farm, a known unproductive landownership in the region. They were surrounded by two military detachments that opened fire to carry out the order of the then governor of the state of Pará, Almir Gabriel (PSDB), to clear the road at any cost. The police officers left the barracks of Parauapebas and Marabá with no identification on their uniforms and armament, and warned doctors and ambulances to stand by.

Of the 144 military indicted, the only two to be convicted -Colonel Mário Collares Pantoja, sentenced to 228 years, and Major José Maria Pereira de Oliveira, sentenced to 154 years in prison-were freed by a decision of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) at the end of 2005, shortly after completing one year of their sentences. Both are waiting in liberty for the result of a special appeal presented to the Supreme Court of Justice and an extraordinary appeal filed with the STF. Those politically responsible for the massacre, Governor Almir Gabriel and his secretary for Public Security, Paulo Sette Câmara, were not indicted.