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The Brazilian government has raided neo-Nazi groups across 10 states this year, part of a push by the new Lula administration to prosecute far-right extremists.
Four Argentines working in slavery conditions were rescued by Brazil s Federal Police Saturday in Nova Petrópolis, 90 kilometers from Porto Alegre, according to an O Globo report which also mentioned that the group had been abandoned by their employers in a rural property without resources or food. Among the victims was a 14-year-old minor. A suspect was arrested.
A man, responsible for the activities, was arrested by police officers for submitting workers to slave-like labor, a crime provided for in the Brazilian Penal Code.