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Weekly Report - 5 May 2011 (WR-11-18)
BRAZIL: Beefing up the border
The new justice minister, José Eduardo Cardozo, is beefing up border security, with a major focus on the long porous frontiers with coca-producing neighbours Bolivia and Peru, and Paraguay. The government is stepping up its efforts amid increasing domestic drug consumption and transnational crime, led by Brazil's best known local organised groups.
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