U.S. officials: Brazil ethanol doesn't harm Amazon

Wed Jul 11, 2007 6:55pm EDT
 
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Authorities often find laborers working under inhumane conditions on farms and last week freed more than 1,000 workers on an Amazon sugarcane plantation. Brazil launched a national plan to eradicate slave-like working conditions in 2002.

(Reporting by Raymond Colitt)

 
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