Elite troops at the borders
Proposes creating the National Border System, a force of the Army, Navy and Air Force to intercept rifles and drugs by land, through ports and through airspace.
What the program says
Today, we have 16,000 kilometers of open borders and a force of 1 police officer for every 100 kilometers. This “free-for-all” is going to end. We will create the “Sistema Nacional de Fronteira” (“National Border System”), an elite force of the Army, the Navy and the Brazilian Air Force, equipped with weapons of war, intelligence and technology, responsible for building a massive wall at the border. Rifles and drugs that supply 100% of the factions will be intercepted by land, through ports and through airspace. We will disorganize organized crime and suffocate crime physically and financially. [p. 13, 14]
In plain language
- The text states that Brazil has 16,000 kilometers of open borders and 1 police officer for every 100 kilometers.
- The program proposes creating the National Border System, an elite force of the Army, the Navy and the Brazilian Air Force.
- This force would have weapons of war, intelligence and technology, and would be responsible for forming a barrier at the border.
- The goal cited is to intercept, by land, through ports and through airspace, the rifles and drugs that, according to the text, supply 100% of the factions, and to suffocate organized crime physically and financially.
What is not in the program
- It does not state how many military personnel would make up the force or how they would be distributed along the border.
- It gives no cost, funding source or timeline for creating the system.
- It does not name the legal instrument for creating it or how the force would work together with the police.
- It does not cite the source of the figures on border length, police staffing and supply of the factions.