A report from the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) released on Tuesday said that Mexican cartels drug trafficking extend their influence to other producing, consuming and transit countries, including Brazil.

The reserved report, prepared in 2018 and partially declassified, emphasizes that “Brazil, as an important drug consumption and transit region, he is also susceptible to the power projection of Mexican organizations“.

“Recognised for the extreme violence that ranks them among the most dangerous organizations in the worldMexican organizations continue to expand their influence in producing, consuming and transit countries such as Brazil,” Abin said in the report, which he had access to. EFE.

However, the declassified portion of the report does not explain the extent to which Mexican cartels have penetrated Brazil, a country that is a major drug market and is also transit country on routes to Europe and Africa.

The document states that among the nine organizations involved in drug trafficking in Mexico, Sinaloa cartel ‘continues to be the most powerful in America’although he also names among the organizations with the most international recognition Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG),

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According to Brazilian intelligence, in 2012 the Mexican cartels went from eleven operational and financial cells abroad to 33 identified in 2017.

The diversification of Mexican cartels, some of which are linked to Colombian criminal organizations, is spreading throughout the region. kidnapping, robbery, extortion, illegal immigration and money laundering in tax havens. (EFE)