Brazil forms international alliance against organized crime in the Southern Cone

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – A plan prepared by the Ministry of Justice and Public Security (MJSP), presented today by Minister Anderson Torres and Paraguayan authorities, aims to intensify the fight against organized crime in South America.

“The Strategic Alliance against Transnational Organized Crime is an initiative carefully prepared by the Brazilian government that will integrate the talents of the security sectors of the countries of the Southern Cone to intensify and accelerate the hard blows that we are conducting at the regional level against organized crime,” said Minister Anderson Torres in Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, which was the first country invited to integrate this union of forces.

According to Torres, Brazil already conducts several operations with other countries against organized crime, but never in a larger group and with permanent members. The idea is to strengthen and streamline this work, using the best of each South American country in terms of security and establishing common working standards that are familiar to all.

The invitation and announcement of the alliance in Paraguay is a tribute to the fact that it is the nation that cooperates most with Brazil and “strikes hard blows against organized crime.”

HISTORY

Data from the ministry shows that the Brazil-Paraguay Operation New Alliance has enabled the joint destruction of 11,620 tons of marijuana in both territories between 2019 and 2021. Last year alone, 5,401 tons of the drug were destroyed.

Also, under Operation Status in 2020, the two countries seized R$230 (US$50) million in assets from traffickers operating near the city of Pedro Juan Caballero in Paraguay.

And under Operations Safe Border I, II and III, binational police officers arrested leaders of the First Capital Command (PCC) operating between Pedro Juan Caballero and Ponta Porã in Brazil.

With information from Agencia Brasil