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Brazil convicts Volkswagen for enslaving laborers in the Amazon 40 years ago
(english.elpais.com)
Go back a little further and it gets worse.
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2026
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There's a Behind the Bastards episode about this
They have to pay $390,000 to 4 people.
Are you trying to reinforce to them that slavery is OK and profitable?
That is how the German multinational ended up as the main shareholder of a ranch in Santana de Araguaia in Pará, a cattle operation slightly larger than New York City. To create pasture, the forest had to be cleared — and that required labor.
Kinda fucked how speciesist the narrative of this article is.
They didn't even condemn the majority of the slaves in this operation, who were murdered and whoose dead bodies were cut up and sold to be eaten
football boots...A group wearing the German multinational’s logo
It's very funny to see this poor translation
Good. Now they should go for BYD, too.