Love Lula if you're poor, worry if you're not

摘要

An unexpected whiff of garlic is the first indication of an industry that helps sustain the 70,000 people of one of the poorer districts of Contagem, a city in eastern Brazil. Elizabete Cordeiro and Ro-milda da Silva are among the 200 women who spend their days peeling garlic, which fetches more than the unshelled sort in nearby Belo Horizonte. Hunched over plastic buckets outside a brick hovel, they shell 1,000 kilos a month. This yields 400 reais ($185), which they share.