--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert <babajii_99@...> wrote: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Brazil >
Interesting article. Maharishi bought for a time a huge landholding in Brazil. It came with the farms, cities, utilities, equipment, and the people there. As it happened they planted an incredible number of acres in to soybeans and made a handsome profit on the sizable operating capital that was put in to it by the movement. This was about the time Maharishi bought an Island off the coast of Brazil too. Projects like these down there overworked and overtaxed the TM movement then and tore it apart in using people up. "A national survey conducted in 2000 by the Pastoral Land Commission, a Roman Catholic church group, estimated that there were more than 25,000 forced workers in Brazil. More than 1,000 slave-like laborers were freed from a sugar cane plantation in 2007 by the Brazilian Government"
