Security service officials state that Paraguay is the largest producer of marijuana in South America. Most of the cannabis that…
The PCC (First Command of the Capital), a criminal organization in Brazil, makes $60 Million a year through drug trafficking…
A foreign tourist working as a drug mule in Paraguay is able to make up to $3,970 per trip smuggling…
An estimated 300,000 illegal immigrants from Bolivia and Paraguay and 45,000 from Peru live in the Sao Paulo area of…
According to federal police, up to 70 percent of the illegal drugs and contraband cigarettes that are smuggled into Brazil enter through illegal ports and entries around the Itaipu Dam and the Parana River on the border with Paraguay.
5,900 tons of marijuana is produced each year in Paraguay.
40 tons of cocaine and up to 15 percent of the world’s marijuana supply is trafficked through Paraguay each year.
Cigarette smuggling from Paraguay leads to 90 percent, or $1 Billion worth of cigarettes, to be smuggled into the black markets of Brazil and Argentina.
At the start of 2010, Mexico was the largest Marijuana producing country in the world, followed by Paraguay.
The United States estimates that up to $6 Billion in black market revenue is laundered each year through the Paraguay city of Ciudad del Este. The city is part of the Tri-Border area of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.