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2004 -
August 2004
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 More than 6,400 Brazilian
workers have been freed from slave-
like work conditions since the beginning, 18 months ago, of a
national operation to crack down on slave work. Now the Brazilian
Congress is debating a bill that would change the Constitution in
a way that those guilty of having slaves would lose their land.
by: Juliana
Andrade
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2004 -
August 2004
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Sunday, 01 August 2004 08:54 |
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 The Brazilian government
is threatening to create an institution,
which would be able to prevent journalists from working. They
forget that the Brazilian Constitution considers working an unalienable
right, which can only be suspended by a judicial sentence.
It's a farce. Every government since Ramses II hates criticism.
by: Carlos
Chagas
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2004 -
August 2004
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Sunday, 01 August 2004 08:54 |
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 If the Brazilian President
really thought football would bring peace
he should have arranged for the match to be staged closer to home.
The favelas in Brazil can easily be as wretched as the shantytowns
in Haiti. Furthermore, Brazilian soldiers are available to maintain
order in Haiti, none are around to do likewise in Brazil's favelas.
by: John
Fitzpatrick
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2004 -
August 2004
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Sunday, 01 August 2004 08:54 |
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 Brazil's Guarani Indians
were displaced by modern agriculture in
the '70s. They were moved to one of eight Indian reservations that
had been set up at the beginning of the century. The reservations
were located near cities, in keeping with the conventional wisdom
of the time that what the Indians needed was to be "civilized."
by: Spensy
Pimentel
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2004 -
August 2004
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Sunday, 01 August 2004 08:54 |
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 Three recent proposals
by Brazilian President Lula have caused uproar
in Brazil. The first would create a Federal Counsel of Journalism
to police journalists' activities. The second would establish a
National Agency of Movies and Audiovisual. And the third would
prohibit certain government officials from speaking to the press.
by: Richard
Hayes
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