Among the issues discussed are possible actions to combat crimes on the country's border.

The Monitoring Meeting: Governance for Frontiers seminar took place yesterday (26) in Brasília and those present discussed the improvement of the institutionalization of public policies aimed at borders. One of the highlights was the unification of actions to combat crimes on the country's border.

The event coordinated by Minister João Augusto Nardes was attended by politicians and personalities such as General Sérgio Etchegoyen, Chief Minister of the Secretariat for Institutional Security, and the President of the Executive Committee for the Coordination of Border Control.

For Etchegoyen, drug trafficking and smuggling are crimes that need a lot of attention and bilateral cooperation between countries in the region. The general explained that there are huge demographics, mainly in the Amazon region, and that the Armed Forces are the only presence in these more remote areas. The committee chairman said that the action plans are being improved.

"A successful plan must consider the integration between the areas of repression, with international cooperation, the use of technology and intelligence, as well as qualified personnel and adequate infrastructure", he concluded.

The 17 thousand kilometers of dimension demand a border policy with structures and processes to improve security, organization and governance. "We have the diagnosis now, we need to find the solution," said the minister. He said that the Portuguese and Spanish courts of auditors will ally with the Brazilian TCU to discuss border governance and audit processes to make countries' efforts more efficient.

Coordinator of the National Movement in Defense of the Brazilian Legal Market and president of Brazilian Institute of Competition Ethics (ETCO) and the National Forum Against Piracy and Illegality (FNCP), Edson Vismona, explained that combating illegality is part of a broad national agenda to defend society's interests.

Deputy Efraim Filho (DEM-PB), president of the Parliamentary Front to Combat Smuggling, reinforced the harmfulness of smuggling and the inhibition of its realization causes investments. In addition to directly affecting the economy, financing drug trafficking and organized crime, it generates currency evasion and poses a risk to the integrity of the consumer. “To fight against smuggling is to defend life. Smuggling is a lose-and-lose game. The society loses, the consumer loses, the industry loses ”, added the parliamentarian.