Slaves in the Amazon – Part 3

This article is a continuation of ‘Slaves in the Amazon – Part 2’.

Valdimar do Nascimento is 29 and recently fled the farm where he worked. This man Marabá account that the accumulated debt to his employer cut his salary 56 euros a month for spraying fields from sunrise to sunset.

Prolonged contact with the poison and the lack of hygiene caused rashes on her left leg. "When I started to feel much pain, to have severe dizziness, fever and loss of vision, I talked to the boss and tell him what was wrong and he said it was not so bad.
I told him to go to public hospitals and asked me to give me or transport. Then I began to understand that I had to go there and report what was happening, "recounts afflicted.

Antonio Pereira da Sena also has subsisted in deplorable conditions. At 41 presents the gesture hungry and emaciated after months eating poorly and sleeping under a plastic. In the jungle.

Reports that the water he and his family were forced to drink came from a well contaminated by the remains of a dead ox. As in the case of Do Nascimento, the boss does not pay the agreed salary. "I discounted it all: food, work material, footwear. So in
the end the pattern left me out, without money or anything," he says.

One of the tools to combat slave labor in Brazil is the Mobile Control Group, established in 1995. Since then, the audits of farms and workplaces has been growing. Without warning, the six teams that make up the group landed in places that have been reported
or suspected irregularities there.

They question the workers, their employers, and try to determine the existence of conditions analogous to slavery. Often these inspections culminating in the settlement of unpaid wages and rescue workers.

In 2010 more than 2,600 people were released in Brazil. A small number compared to nearly 6,000 in 2007.

Since then, the number of complaints has fallen and rescues. "The map of slave labor is changing. Pará State has always been the most controversial, but now also act fairly in the southern state of Amazonas, in the so-called Boca do Acre," confirms Jose
Guilherme de Araujo Moreira, head of the Group Mobile. For Judge Dos Santos Andrade, however, the number of teams from Group Mobile is "insufficient to meet such a challenge." "This shows the smallness of the State in this drama," complaint.

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