















Clowise
from top left: 1) this train line received the nickname "slavery express"
because it's the one used by many workers who will end up trapped in debt-bondage;
2) Complexo do Pequia and its several pig-iron producers; 3) workers that manage
to escape from farms where they were kept in debt-bondage sometimes succeed
to come back with the Federal Police to try to release the rest of the enslaved
workers; but the returning worker has to conceal his identity for safety reasons;
4) members of the Federal Police storm a pig-iron producer and find over 50
truckloads of illegal charcoal and arrest all the managers; 5) a worker waits
to be helped by a small local NGO, as he is starving and without money to go
back home; the farm where he was working was about to be raided but the farmer
heard about it and kicked everyone out without any money, to avoid any evidence
that the workers had ever worked for him; 6) this worker was released by the
Federal Police and Ministry of Labour's inspectors from a cattle farm where
he had worked for 5 years; he had to buy his food in a groceries shop owned
by the farmer's brother-in-law, with inflated prices. He became initially indebted
when the farmer paid for his food. He then had to work continuously to try and
clear the debt; however, he always believed that in the following month he would
clear his debt, which never happened.