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    A worker seen in a coffee farm during operation to identify slave workers in Minas Gerais state. REUTERS/Adriano Machado

    Slave Workers Rescued in Brazil Were as Young as Nine

    A large Brazilian tobacco exporter has been charged with using slave labor in the ...

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    Fabio Teixeira
    The workers rescued were from teenagers as young as 13 to men in their sixties - Photo: Adriano Machado (Reuters)

    While World Demand for Slave-free Coffee Grows, Brazil Finds Ways to Cheat Consumers

    As the coffee harvest drew to a close in the rolling hills of southeastern ...

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    Fabio Teixeira
    Women walk along the Dutra highway to reach Guarulhos International Airport - Photo by Thomson Reuters Foundation

    Victims of Human Trafficking These Women Are Jailed in Brazil as Drug Mules

    Helena had been struggling to provide for her six-year-old son in Africa’s island nation ...

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    Fabio Teixeira
    Aerial picture of uncontacted Amazonian tribe - FUNAI

    Brazil Accuses American Missionary of Exposing Indians to Death

    An American missionary operating in Brazil has exposed an isolated indigenous tribe to disease ...

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    Fabio Teixeira
    Venezuelan refugees receive temporary shelter in Boa Vista, Brazil - Marcelo Camargo/ABr

    85,000 Venezuelan Refugees Fled to Brazil, Many of Them Children

    Fleeing poverty and hunger, at least 1,000 Venezuelan children arrived at Brazil’s main entry ...

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    Fabio Teixeira
    Brazil's incoming president Jair Bolsonaro has called Cuban doctors 'slave labor' because their government keeps about 75 percent of their pay

    For Cuban Doctors in Brazil a Choice Between Being a Slave or a Refugee

    Isabela, one of more than 8,000 Cuban health workers in Brazil, saw two options ...

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    Fabio Teixeira