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  1. Paul Cull (pdcull@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Mar-2018 18:47:16 EDT Paul Cull Paul Cull

    I think the word for that is "slavery"...

    "According to the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), 1.5 million people in Brazil are unable to leave their employment due to some kind of debt."

    https://www.equaltimes.org/one-hundred-years-of-servitude-in?lang=en#.Wrp-kb5BE9o.facebook

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      One hundred years of servitude in Brazil
      By Thais Lazzeri from Equal Times

      One hundred years of servitude in Brazil

      Sexagenarian Augusto Miranda Brasão has been cutting piassava since the age of 12 to pay off debts to his bosses. This palm tree, with coarse fibres that are used to make brooms, has marked the life of Augusto as well as that of his brother, father and grandfather.
      For 100 years, various generations of the Brasão family have lived under a criminal enterprise that binds thousands of indigenous workers on the upper and middle Rio Negro (Black River), in the state of Amazonas. The brothers live in the (...)

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