110 people freed in Brazil in conditions of slavery

Operation Rescue carried out by members of the Federal Police and public ministries of Brazil freed at least 110 people, including adolescents, indigenous people, the elderly and the disabled, who worked in conditions of slavery in that country.

In recent decades, some 56,000 people who have been outraged in this way have been freed in the South American giant, according to official data released by the National Day Against Slave Labor.

The biggest action took place in the central state of Goiás, where 24 people were separated from an orange plantation, one was redeemed in the same region after working 15 years in exchange for a home.

Among those rescued are two adolescents in Minas Gerais, three indigenous people in Mato Grosso do Sul and five people who were exploited in an amusement park in Pernambuco.

Similarly, 11 were taken from a garimpo (mining operation) on the border between Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte, as well as two disabled people in Rio Grande do Sul.

In total, the compensation funds that will be received to compensate these workers amount to about 500 thousand reais (about 93 thousand dollars), reported the Federal Police and all will be entitled to three installments of special unemployment insurance.

According to the delegate José Roberto Peres, the most common is that those rescued are in degrading conditions, in precarious housing and without free access to water, food and bathrooms.

It is also common for them to be subjected to exhaustive work regimes, without adequate rest time and another common situation is debt bondage.

Last year, 942 people were rescued from situations similar to slavery in Brazil, confirmed the Undersecretariat of Labor Inspection, linked to the Ministry of Economy.