Country Profile Brazil 2003
UNODC Regional Office Brazil 2003
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Country Profile Brazil 2003
TABLE OF CONTENTS List of tables ...... i List of graphics...... i List of abbreviations...... ii PREFACE...... iii Map of South America...... iv EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...... v 1. BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW OF THE DRUG AND CRIME SITUATION...... 1 2. SUMMARY STATISTICS...... 5 2.1. Drugs...... 6 2.2. Crime...... 9 3. THE YEAR IN REVIEW: MAIN EVENTS...... 16 3.1. Major political and economic events...... 16 3.2. Drugs...... 17 3.3. Crime...... 18 4. GENERAL SETTING...... 19 4.1. Major characteristics of the country...... 19 5. DRUG SITUATION...... 21 5.1. Production and cultivation ...... 21 5.2. Manufacture ...... 22 5.3. International trafficking...... 22 5.4. Diversion of drugs and precursors ...... 25 5.5. Drug prices...... 26 5.6. Demand...... 26 5.7. Costs and consequences ...... 29 5.8. Money-laundering...... 34 6. CRIME SITUATION ...... 35 6.1. Main characteristics ...... 35 6.2. Issues of specific concern...... 36 7. POLICY ...... 37 7.1. Drugs...... 37 7.1.1. National drug control framework...... 37 7.1.1.1. Conventions adherence and national legislation...... 38 7.1.1.2. Main characteristics of national drug control policy ...... 38 7.1.2. Licit control (drugs and precursors)...... 38 7.1.3. Supply reduction ...... 38 7.1.4. Demand reduction ...... 39 7.1.5. Money-laundering control measures...... 41 7.1.6. International cooperation ...... 41 7.1.7. Legislation (drugs) ...... 41 7.2. Crime...... 42 7.2.1 National crime prevention framework ...... 42 7.2.1.1 Organized Crime Convention adherence...... 45 7.2.1.2 Legislation (crime) ...... 45 7.2.1.3 Crime control institutions ...... 46 7.2.1.4 Main characteristics of the national crime prevention strategy ...... 47 7.2.1.5 Extradition agreements ...... 48 8. SIGNIFICANT MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION ...... 50 8.1. Annex I...... 50 8.2. Annex II ...... 52
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Country Profile Brazil 2003
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