‘Morally repugnant’: Brazilian workers sue coffee supplier to Starbucks over ‘slavery-like conditions’
by Tiago Rogero in Rio de Janeiro from World news | The Guardian on (#6WTVJ)
Brazil has been the world's leading coffee producer due to the forced labour of enslaved Africans and Afro-Brazilians
John" was just days from turning 16 when he was allegedly recruited to work on a Brazilian coffee farm that supplies the global coffeehouse chain Starbucks.
Soon after his birthday, he embarked on a 16-hour bus journey to the farm in the state of Minas Gerais - only to discover that none of what he had been promised would be fulfilled.
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