Brazzil

If anyone remembers... "Bin Lula double crossed his "companheiros" at the drop of a hat in exchange for cold, hard cash". The sugar cane cutters were defended by him before the election. Now, he calls the usineiros "heroes" and says work conditions are just peachy. I guess the usineiro's campaign contributions speak louder than anything else.
Mr Osama Bin Lula is a true Marxist, and always has been.
As in Groucho Marx, not Karl...
Groucho is the author of "These are my principles! ... If you don't like them, I have others".
Fits him to a "T", eh?

it is a ass kicking

who now will want to inves in brasilian fuel at the price of the human factor like it is

fuel price should be about
$2.500 a liter
the owners of this industry should be taken to court and made to pay for medical , and pay back the citys they use

and as far as the child kidnapings and prostituion
well just kill them

then go after the labor department for knowing this goes on and not doing something about it for 30 years

Is that not what I have been telling time and again ?

One important error in the article is that it not close to 80 % of the cane that is manually harvested but "only" 40 %. Or more precisely around 200 millions tons out of the around 500 millions produced. AT LEAST AS PER YOUR OFFICIAL MANIPULATED FIGURES !!!!!!!!

It is very very sad and shameful that Lula is begging the world to use.....MORE ETHANOL....to create more of the same poors !!!!!!

Furthermore on sexual abuses with minors, here is another proof that most abuses are made by Brazilians......and certainly not by foreigners in their sexual tourism........contrary to what many junkies are saying in this site and many of your government members and politicians. Shame to them....for pointing their fingers in the wrong directions so that they themselves can continue their daily practices with total impunity.....of course !

Well known all over the world that in Brazil interior, Brazilians get BJs from minors at a cost of much less than 20 Reals..

Ohhhhh....and your charcoal industry is not any better than your sugarcane industry.
Brazilians even produce written guarantees that no slaves alike labor has been used.
Wellll.....a Brazilian written guarantee is just what it is ! Simply another lie and cheating !

funny that your second worst crook, your Vice President Alencar, adamantly tells in public that there are nos slaves in your
sugarcane industry.

funny that your second worst crook, your Vice President Alencar

Please tell us all that you know about this gentleman and his Chinese connections.

This is all about on the level as the people who were arguing that the road from Mato Grasso to the Amazon soybean export port should not be built because "bandits" would use the easy access provided by the road to prey upon aboriginal villages. Odebrecht, Cosan, ADM and George Soros are not investing multiple billions in the Brasilian ethanol industry to take advantage of available cheap labor. They are betting, like Lula, on the establishment and development of an international ethanol market that will allow Brasilian producers to sell into a competitive energy market, which is bench-marked off the price
oil, at a healthy profit. The cost advantage associated with Brasilian ethanol relates primarily to the higher energy-content of the feedstuff - sugarcane - and not to supposed lower labor costs. Drop the
trade barriers and let the market work, and the plight of the sugar industry work force should improve drastically.

Why is then pump prices far higher in Brazil than in the USA ????????


Ohhhhhh Conceicao, aince you know that ethanol made from sugarcane is so much more profitable than ethanol made from corn, especially if sugarcane is made in Brazil, please clarify why Brazil is building plants to make ethanol from corn and biodiesel from soyabeans.?

Was Brazil NOT the most adamant against the use of corn and soyabeans for biofuel production ????????

Did you even know that in the next 3 years, 15 % of Brazil soyabeans production will be transformed into biodiesel ?????
And more later on....of course !

as to the trade barriers, yess you are right but forget to mention that Brazil has far more trade barriers than the EU or the USA.
Doesnt Brazil has an importation tax of 100 % on foreign made cars ????? So that you forced foreign companies to set up plants in Brazil ?
And exports "brazilian" cars made by foreigners...to third party countries ?

Why dont you then invest billion and billion of US$/Euros and PRODUCE biofuels in the USA and the EU ?????

Why do you expect the trade barriers to drop so that the market will work.....ONLY IN AGRICULTURE PRODUCTS ?????
Conceicao where is your common sense ? One way only ?

I know nothing. Why such a question ?

As to Alencar public statement that there is no slaves in Brazil sugarcane fields, please scroll down to a few months ago.
His statement and guarantee was also published in an article......from this site !!!!

Joao, I invent NOTHING !

As to Brazil "top notch" advanced technology in healthcare, that from time to time Brazil articles describe, again just ask Alencar, why every time he is in need of a heart bypass/tripass surgery....HE GOES TO THE USA FOR THE SURGERY !!!!!!!!
Of course totally paid by the government...with private government plane, and a tribe of government workers and nurses to care for him !!!!
Quite contradictory....isnt it ?

I know nothing. Why such a question ?

I thought you knew it. You know that he made money in the Textile field,right? According to what I know, he is heavily investing in China in Textile Industries!!. Think about it. Wipe out the Tex industries here,build a huge factory in PRC, import the goods from there for a low cost......... I dont have to explain further,because you are too smart. Do you know that the largest contigency of our diplomatic corp in the world is located in Beijing? Check it out.

Joao, I invent NOTHING !

Nor do I

As to Brazil "top notch" advanced technology in healthcare, that from time to time Brazil articles describe, again just ask Alencar, why every time he is in need of a heart bypass/tripass surgery....HE GOES TO THE USA FOR THE SURGERY !!!!!!!!
Of course totally paid by the government...with private government plane, and a tribe of government workers and nurses to care for him !!!!
Quite contradictory....isnt it ?

Another interesting point you raised. Especially, when we have INCOR,Albert Einstein,etc; I tend to disagree from you when you say that we dont have good doctors to take care of him here.You know as well as I do that we do have. But my question: Why should he go to U.S., paid by the Tax Payers?

btw, I still think that you are a Brazilian born Swiss. You know lot more about this country if you dont want to say, you dont have to.

Cane cutters are in the fields at harvest time - why would anyone be spraying crops with insecticide during a harvest

The author is counting on the readers knowing absolutely nothing about agriculture

"When the airplane passed, pouring out that bath of poison, my father was soaked. He fell ill because of the toxins that are sprayed over the cane. This is the end for many young people here, " says a female cane cutter from the region of Ribeirão Preto, in São Paulo state.

Most of the Cane around Riberão Preto is harvested by machine

there is certainly more to the story than what i've read in america!!!!!