After Fighting for the Rights of Workers, Brazil’s President Lula Faces a Labor Abuse Crisis

The dismissal of Brazil’s top labor inspector has landed the leftist government of President Lula, a former union leader, in an awkward spot.A factory for the automaker BYD under construction last year in Camaçari, Bahia, Brazil. A labor ministry inspection found that Chinese workers building the plant were living in squalid conditions.