| The Ministry of Labour's
inspectors are developing a pioneering activity, linking the exploitation
of poor workers making charcoal at the edges of the Amazon forest, in one
side of the production chain, to profitable pig iron producing companies
in the other. Here they are inspecting a big company in Para. The managers
of this company were arrested the following day, as the Federal Police found
over 50 truckloads of illegal charcoal in the company's premises, destined
to pig iron production. The company was also fined heavily by the environmental
agency IBAMA. |
