Brazilian workers exposed to infections and death as meat-processing industry reaps record profits
Brazil entered the year 2021 surpassing the terrible milestone of 195,000 COVID-19 deaths. This death toll, exceeded only by the United States, is growing at a ferocious pace, with the highest number of deaths since mid-August being recorded on December 29, 1,224 in total.
Amid this spiral of deaths, workplaces and economic activities in general remain entirely open. A recent coronavirus outbreak in a meat-processing plant in Brazil’s southern region sounds the alarm over the serious dangers confronting the working class.
On December 19, a plant owned by Seara in Seberi, in the northern region of Rio Grande do Sul, received a court order to test all its employees after 127 of them tested positive for COVID-19. The facility employs 1,241 workers in total, all of whom have potentially been exposed to the virus.
rest of humanity, for the rest of civilization to protect the kurds? it never said that. and we have protected them. we ve taken very good care of them. and i hope they re going to watch over isis. barbara starr joins us again from the pentagon. at least for now the official line is that u.s. troops cannot stay in iraq as they head there from syria. what does this mean? well, what we re looking at is several hundred u.s. troops crossed the border into the relative safety of northwestern ir iraq, as they left seara. this was always the designated place they were going to go. iraqi government putting out a statement saying they are allowed to come in there, but they are simply not allowed to stay. to talk to the iraqis about this and try to work it out. there may be a situation here where the iraqi government has
when you say all that have is gone, first of all, it seems there s reporting today that all anti-isis fighting from the coalition has essentially stopped. you mean the fighters will reconstitute again? that s always been the risk. new york times had a report that there were still 18,000 isis fighters across iraq and seara. these are the guys fighting america during the iraq war. this is al qaeda. their roots are insurgency. they ve just gone back to that. you mentioned that it was a sticky situation. everyone involved realized how sticky the situation was that, this partnership needed to continue because isis is still a major threat and needed to do counterinsurgency operations with the kurds to roll that up. it s over now, as you mentioned. out of desperation, the kurds were part of the fighting forces against the syrian regime of bashir al assad have turned to
anti-isis fighting from the coalition has essentially stopped. you mean the fighters will reconstitute again? that s always been the risk. new york times had a report that there were still 18,000 isis fighters across iraq and seara. these are the guys fighting america during the iraq war. this is al qaeda. their roots are insurgency. they ve just gone back to that. you mentioned that it was a sticky situation. everyone involved realized how sticky the situation was that, this partnership needed to continue because isis is still a major threat and needed to do counterinsurgency operations with the kurds to roll that up. it s over now, as you mentioned. out of desperation, the kurds were part of the fighting forces against the syrian regime of bashir al assad have turned to assad. which means after going down to