29 Jan 2004
Spot the hypocrite!

Maybe I need to refresh my memory here, but wasn't Brazil one of the "poor" nations demanding (at the recent WTO Cancun summit) that we reduce farm subsidies (which effectively make American agricultural products cheaper on world markets)? Didn't they accuse us of hypocrisy over these subsidies?

And yet it was apparently only last March when Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva announced measures to end slave labour in Brazil.

Three officials have been shot dead while investigating allegations of slavery, Brazil's Labour Ministry says.

(link) [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

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