slavery in Brazil???

Luis G

Luis G

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Brazil's newly installed President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has unveiled a plan to wipe out slavery, a practice which still persists in some remote areas of South America's largest country.

He says that the country needs tougher laws allowing farms where slavery occurs to be confiscated, as well as the political will to eradicate the practice.

In areas of the Amazon, there are frequent stories of landless peasants being lured to remote farms with promises of work only to find themselves caught in a web of debt from which they cannot escape.

They are charged exorbitant rates for everything from food and water to the tools they work with.

Armed guards stop them running away.
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Now that's the kind of thing that pisses me off. (slavery)
 
We do a pretty good job of getting those Russian women over here to dance in our strip clubs and become prostitutes by promising them model stardom and other wonderful things.
 
In the States? I know theres a sweatshop industry subculture for the Chinese and Latino populations ... but I've not heard of Russian girls being treated that way here. I've heard that the Russians are hostages in Japan and in the red light districts of Europe.
 
Actually that happens more in Canada. Places like Vancouver have had many of these busts over the past decade.
 
I was going to say no pun intended but i thought naaaa, no one at otc has such bad taste as to notice it. :grinno:
 
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