Tag: smuggling

Emulating the US, Brazil Builds High-Security Wall on Paraguay Border

Brazil confirmed that it will build a steel and concrete wall along the Paraguayan ...

US Homeland Security Agents Extend Their Mission into Brazil

Agents from the United States Department of Homeland Security will soon be helping Brazil, ...

Brazil Clamps Down on Paraguayan Contraband

Businessmen, taxi and truck drivers in Ciudad del Este blocked this week the Friendship ...

Police Break Another Ring Using Mexico to Smuggle Brazilians into the US

Brazilian authorities on Tuesday, November 29, arrested 35 people accused of sneaking illegal migrants ...

Brazil Seizes US$ 87 Million in Contraband, a 130% Jump

The president of the Brazilian National Council to Combat Piracy and Intellectual Property Violations, ...

Brazil Believes It Has Broken the Smuggling Mafia’s Back

Between January and July of this year, seizures of contraband products throughout Brazil rose ...

Brazil to Seize Hundreds of Tourist Buses Used in Smuggling

Operation National Convoy, launched Friday, June 17, by Brazil’s Federal Police (PF), expects to ...

Brazil Gets Tough on Smugglers

The Federal Revenue agency has intensified its surveillance this year along Brazil’s border with ...