Brasil e Paraguai na troca de estratégias para combate ao narcotráfico internacional

Abstract

This work has, as its general aim, to study the cooperation between Brazil and Paraguay in the exchange of strategies to fight the international narcotraffic; and, as its specific goals, to discuss the narcotraffic scenario between the countries and reflect on the effects of the cooperatively traced strategies. The justification of this qualitative research is the importance of the study of a reality with international reflections, in which will be exposed the strategies and signed agreements between both countries to reduce the drug commerce by the frontier. Given its easy permeability, the border between Brazil and Paraguay counts with an intense flux of drugs, included points of intense fiscalization, like the one at the Friendship Bridge. The founding of Mercosur (South Common Market), in 1991, that eased the flow of people and commerce between the countries, increased the difficulty of controling the situation. In the fight against narcotraffic, Brazil and Paraguay strengthened their dialogue for international cooperation and signed bilateral agreements, being the first one done in 1988 regarding the Prevention, Control, Fiscalization and Repression of the Improper Use and Traffic of Intoxicating and Psychotropic Substances, in which, to reach its goals, they aimed to undertake joined efforts to fiscalize and reprehend the illicit drug traffic and its primary materials used in the production and transformation.