Complex sentence: Work on the area began in 1926 by the company under the name "Companhia Ford Industrial do Brasil" and was immediately hindered by poor logistics and diseases that affected the workers who succumbed to yellow fever and malaria.
Split into simpler sentences: Work on the area began in 1926 by the "Companhia Ford Industrial do Brasil". It was immediately hindered by poor logistics and diseases that affected the workers who succumbed to yellow fever and malaria.