REGIONAL INTEGRATION
Brazil and Bolivia ink deals on crime, energy and tourism
Lula (left) and Bolivia’s Rodrigo Paz on Monday. Photo: Ricardo Stuckert/PR
Presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Rodrigo Paz of Bolivia on Monday signed three accords that cover cooperation against transnational organized crime, electrical grid interconnection and tourism promotion.
👉 Why it matters. Individually, each deal is modest in scope. But taken together, they sketch an outline for enhancing a bilateral relationship that has faded in recent years.
Anti-crime agreement: the most politically charged
On paper, it is a fairly standard framework, involving joint operations, intelligence sharing on drug trafficking routes and modus operandi, monitoring of controlled chemical precursors, and identification of airstrips and waterways used for illicit trafficking. It explicitly…
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