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Hi Janet, janet paterson wrote: > Modern-Day Slavery > > By a conservative estimate, there are 27 million people working under > various forms of slavery in the world today, and the number is growing. > > In contrast to the slavery America knew, today's slaveholders mainly > exploit people of their own race....... > > Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it thrives because of the corruption of > police and government authorities.People held in some form of bondage pick > sugar cane in the Dominican > Republic, make the charcoal used in Brazil's steel industry and work as > prostitutes in Thailand.............. It is true that there are many wrong things in Brazil but for the sake of the truth in this case this is used only by the lobby of the american steel (and some others) industry as one of the excuses to tax heavily one of the main export product from here and forget the cry for "free" commerce when the case are for american exportation of goods and products.First thing the coal produced deposits in Brazil are rich in sulfur and bad for use in the steel industry. So the good coal used in this case is mostly imported from other countries that have coal mines deposits of good quality to make steel. Cheers, Joao Paulo - Salvador,BA,Brazil [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask]