Asunción, April 28 (Prensa Latina) The UN Office on Drugs and Crime unveiled a cooperation project with Paraguay and Brazil to improve prison management and the fight against organized crime, a local source reported today.
Specialists from this unit of the world organization exchanged views with representatives of the Ministry of Justice in this capital to promote practices that improve work in this regard, according to the website Judiciales.net.
Experts agree that the project involves strengthening regional cooperation against drug trafficking in line with international standards.
Management in Paraguay would be based on inter-agency cooperation in prison administration to combat these forms of organized crime in this southern nation’s prison system, they stressed.
The process requires building forms of “know-how” on prison issues (classification of inmates, management of high-risk inmates and others), said the country’s prison policy director, Rodrigo Nicora.
The Brazilian specialists, formed by their coordinator, Ana Pekny, and project expert, Mariana Carrera, explained that law enforcement officials and repressive agents are also trained and educated against drug trafficking.
UN experts drew attention to the current context of disputes between organized crime groups in Brazil and in the Paraguayan prison system, as well as the dispute over drug trafficking routes in the so-called “triple border”.
Numerous drug gangs operate in the region, which includes the territorial borders of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina, to ship drugs to other latitudes, particularly the United States and Europe.
This area includes the famous Iguazú Falls and the towns of Puerto Iguazú, Foz do Iguaçu, Presidente Franco and Ciudad del Este.
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