Brazil's Amazon region houses latex 'love factory'
Xapuri, Brazil (AFP) Nov 28, 2014 - Deep in Amazonia, Raimundo Pereira expertly cuts a gash in a rubber tree to collect white sap destined for the nearby factory at Xapuri, the world's only producer of contraceptives made from tropical forest latex. Raimundo's precise, speedy technique bears witness to the fact that he started work aged just nine, accompanying his rubber-tapper father - himself the son of a rubber tapper - i ... more
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