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Brazil & Southern Cone - August 2025
Military personnel caught trafficking drugs
In late June and early July two of the three branches of Chile’s armed forces were hit by corruption scandals. Members of the army and air force were arrested for smuggling drugs from the north of the country to the Santiago Metropolitan Region. Ministers in the government of President Gabriel Boric have pledged to address concerns over the apparent infiltration of organised crime in the country’s military, although in an interview in July the minister for public security, Luis Cordero, rejected suggestions that there was a structural problem.
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