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Brazil workers exploited as modern-day Amazon slaves

Brazil's slavery victims are promised work and find themselves toiling in brutal conditions for little or no pay in the Amazon. After months of chopping down trees in the forest without pay and living on rice, beans and dirty water, Gil Dasio Meirelles decided he had to escape from the remote clearing in the middle of the vast Brazilian Amazon.

 

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