Fazenda Bom Jesus, Brazil -
A BRAZILIAN SLAVE LABORER CUTS DOWN FOREST IN AMAZON BASIN.
Brazilian slave laborer, Francisco Borges de Souza, cuts down forest
with his scythe on the Bom Jesus farm in the Amazon basin, some 1,600
kilometers north of Brasilia, where he has been illegally exploited for
the past six months along with 21 other workers, September 22, 2003. As
teams of government inspectors and federal police step up their quest
to free an estimated 25,000 slave laborers, there is no doubt that
Brazil's feudal slavery traditions are still alive and well in pockets
of its hardscrabble northeast, more than a century after the practice
was abolished. REUTERS/Rickey Rogers PP03100003
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