Brazil convicts Volkswagen for enslaving laborers in the Amazon 40 years ago

Jun 22, 2026 - 13:02
Brazil convicts Volkswagen for enslaving laborers in the Amazon 40 years ago
From left, former laborers José Ribamar Viana Nunes, Pedro Valdo Pereira Vasconcelos, brothers Raimundo and Raul Batista de Souza, photographed in Redenção before the trial.

Mr. Raimundo Batista de Souza apologizes because the internet connection comes and goes and the call takes a while to connect. Things that happen when you live in the heart of the Amazon. He is speaking from Porto Nacional in Tocantins, on the shores of a lake where he fishes to make a living. Souza, 57, shares over the phone a tempered joy and some of the memories that have haunted him for four decades, since he worked with his brothers on the Volkswagen ranch.

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