A FRONTEIRA BRASILEIRA E O CONTRABANDO DURANTE A PANDEMIA DE CORONAVÍRUS

Abstract

Faced with the biggest global health crisis of the 21st century, due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which caused the closure of Brazil’s land borders with the 10 countries of South America, with which it shares territory , in addition to the social distancing that generated a series of economic problems, a reduction in cross-border crime was expected, which did not occur. Brazil, which is a country of continental dimensions, ends up being a smuggling route with the countries with which it borders, and, with the locking of these, criminality ended up reinventing itself to dispose of these illicit acts that make the informal economy spin. Running greater risks of being apprehended by public security agencies, which invest more and more in the area of intelligence, and, as a result of logistical difficulties, generated by the locking of land borders, there has been no reduction in this type of crime, which demands the study of their motives.