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Judi Lynn

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2. Brazil is still a country which has wildly wealthy landowners who use land where indigenous people
Mon May 16, 2016, 09:48 PM
May 2016

have lived for centuries, and discoveries are made of desperately poor people working hard for incredible hours, day and night, and sleeping in hammocks, getting NO money, and their slavery occasionally gets reported and prosecuted. Not always. Working in Brazil is a living hell for many, still.

The people of Brazil who have been able to receive any benefits to aid them in their crushing poverty are lucky, and thankful, and they are quick to acknowledge it to anyone who asks.

I despise those who would work to make life harder for those who have suffered so much already.

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