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A Factory Exodus Is Hollowing Out Brazil’s Industrial Heartland

More than a dozen major companies from Ford to Sony have recently shut operations in Latin America’s biggest economy

A former Ford factory in São Bernardo do Campo.

By Samantha Pearson

| Photographs by Maira Erlich for The Wall Street Journal

June 8, 2023 10:00 am ET

SÃO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil—For half a century, a vast Ford auto plant stood here in Brazil’s industrial heartland, a symbol of the country’s manufacturing strength. It will soon be home to frozen chickens and imported washing machines.

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