Brazil workers exploited in modern-day slavery in Amazon - Los Angeles Times
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/07/world/la-fg-brazil-slave-labor-20120607
After months of chopping down trees in the forest without pay and living on rice, beans and dirty water, Gil Dasio Meirelles decided he had to escape from the remote clearing in the middle of the vast Brazilian Amazon.
But he would have to make his way alone through dense foliage, a place where a man can lose his bearings and find himself lost amid a constant, menacing buzz of jungle creatures.