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1. 1. Knight Ridder Newspapers & Websites::Quality Journalism::Great Stories

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   Published on: 9/5/2004   Last Visited: 6/14/2006

   American companies may see no evil, but the working conditions on some Brazilian farms and ranches may be even worse than those endured by the 3.6 million African slaves on whom Brazil depended for four centuries, said Marcelo Campos, who heads anti-slavery programs at Brazil's Ministry of Labor.
   
   "Legal slaves were property, and watched over because they were an asset," he said.

2. 2. Brazil finds biggest case of modern-day slavery
   

   www1.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/ - [Cached]

   Last Visited: 9/2/2003

   Some 200 workers were also found at another farm with appalling conditions, including no proper housing and inadequate food and sanitary conditions, said Marcelo Campos, an adviser at the Labor Ministry's special unit to monitor slavery in Brazil's vast interior.
   
   "It is the biggest find of this crime we have had since 1995," Campos said, referring to when the unit was created.
   
   He said one worker died of a heart attack when the inspectors turned up at the farm where the 800 workers were found, about 70 of them seriously ill. Another 200 workers were discovered at the second farm, which had a different owner, in the poor interior of the northeastern Bahia state.
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   Campos said the farmers would also have to pay the workers decent wages retroactively.

3. 3. Star-News Online

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   Published on: 9/1/2003   Last Visited: 9/1/2003

   The newspaper cited Marcelo Campos, a spokesman for the labor inspection unit at the Labor Ministry, as its source.
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   According to Brazilian legislation, the workers were considered slaves as they lacked work papers, Campos told the newspaper, adding the owners of the farms are facing four year prison sentences.