O SMUGGLE AND THE FEDERAL INTERVENTION

THE CRIME THAT REMAINS INVISIBLE

Abstract

Brazil has been and continues to be contaminated by intense illegal smuggling flows that cross the border daily. Smuggling is a crime that has been present in the history of the country since its formation. The overflowing of this crime becomes a matter of very high damage to the Brazilian society, economy and politics, imposing to the State challenges that the same did not demonstrate completely capacity to overcome. Despite the many negative consequences of smuggling, it continues to be trivialized by the Brazilian population, media, and government. It is about presenting contraband as a serious and dangerous crime, together with its consequences and ramifications within the reality of organized crime in Brazil. Still, in the current political scenario with the signing of the decree of intervention in the security of Rio de Janeiro, it is warned not to increase contraband to the condition of existential threat for the preservation of security, insofar as this act is, in most cases, exploited as an electoral political maneuver in which fear is created to sell the solution, besides not acting in the origin of the problem. It seeks to demonstrate contraband as a multisectoral problem that must be understood as a set of successive complex social dynamics and treated with attention, resources and initiatives in proportion to its impacts on Brazilian society.