Brazil

Brazil’s Drugs Trafficking is Ignored at Europe’s Peril

Inês Sofia de Oliveira

A bloody prison riot in Brazil has highlighted the country’s growing role as a staging point for illicit drugs heading for Europe. While the EU has done a great deal to disrupt drug routes across the Atlantic, more attention needs to be paid to comparable developments in Brazil.

"Inevitably there will be operations on the ground where there will be co-ordinated sweeps, and systematic analysis of threats and risks. We know in the UK context that we have much more centralised co-ordination in order to ensure effective policing. "

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