Global 3000 | Brazils battle with drugs

Increasingly,Brazil is being used as a transit country for shipments of cocaine. The coca plantations in neighbouring Colombia,Peru and Bolivia use the new smuggler routes through Brazil to get their wares to Africa and Europe.International drug cartels are reaping huge profits and creating huge tensions in the country. Police and judges often work with the dealers,corruption is commonplace. Those who fight the status quo,risk their lives.