Durigan announces this sixth cooperation between Brazil and the USA against organized crime
The Minister of Finance, Dario Durigan, will announce this Friday morning in Brasília an agreement between the governments of Brazil and the United States to combat organized crime, informed the Ministry of Finance, stating that the initiative will involve the Brazilian Federal Revenue Service and the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
‘The initiative, called Project MIT (Mutual Interdiction Team), aims to integrate intelligence efforts and joint operations to intercept illicit shipments of weapons and narcotics. The cooperation is part of the context of the dialogue between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and is part of a broader agenda of bilateral cooperation aimed at ‘confronting transnational organized crime’, the Treasury said in a statement calling the press for the announcement.
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Lula has said that, in conversations with Trump, he made Brazil available to act together with the USA in combating organized crime, including pointing out Brazilians involved in criminal activities who live in the USA.
The announcement of cooperation between the two countries comes at a time when Washington raises the possibility of declaring Brazilian criminal factions as terrorist organizations, something the Brazilian government opposes.
