Overview
- Brazil's finance ministry announced Friday a Mutual Interdiction Team with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to fuse intelligence and coordinate interdictions.
- The partnership links Brazil's Federal Revenue Service with CBP to share cargo data, with a focus on shipments leaving the United States for Brazil.
- Officials rolled out DESARMA, a tool that alerts agencies in real time when parcels are tied to firearms, ammunition, explosives, or other sensitive items.
- Over the past year, authorities logged 35 cases with 1,168 seized items weighing about 550 kilograms, often shipped from Florida using false labels and concealment.
- The move fits the Lula–Trump security agenda, with Brazil's G1 reporting the United States is weighing terrorist labels for PCC and Comando Vermelho that officials have not confirmed.