{"id":63420,"date":"2018-08-28T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-etco-authorities-from-15-latin-american-countries-meet-to-discuss-how-to-fight-contraband\/"},"modified":"2018-08-28T16:12:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T20:12:11","slug":"etco-autoridades-de-15-paises-de-america-latina-asisten-a-un-encuentro-sobre-el-combate-al-contrabando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/etco-autoridades-de-15-paises-de-america-latina-asisten-a-un-encuentro-sobre-el-combate-al-contrabando\/","title":{"rendered":"ETCO: Authorities from 15 Latin American countries meet to discuss how to fight contraband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SAO PAULO<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">August 28, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/\u00a0&#8212; This week the Latin American Anti-Contraband Alliance (ALAC) is meeting for the first time in <span class=\"xn-location\">Brazil<\/span>. The objective of the event, which includes authorities and specialists from 15 countries, is to establish shared actions between governments and civil entities to fight the illegal trade of products such as cigarettes, textiles, drinks, sporting goods, audio-visual products, and food.<\/p>\n<p>The commitment to fighting smuggling is a challenge for all Latin American countries. Edson Vismona, President of the Brazilian Institute for Ethics in Competition (ETCO) and Co-President of ALAC, believes the presence of 15 countries from the region is extremely significant. &#8220;<span class=\"xn-location\">Brazil<\/span> and the other member countries are currently suffering from contraband cigarettes that are smuggled in from <span class=\"xn-location\">Paraguay<\/span>, especially in the Southern Cone. The statement made by President M\u00e1rio Abdo Ben\u00edtez that fighting smuggling and fraud are commitments of the new government, is very important,&#8221; Vismona said.<\/p>\n<p>Vismona believes that in addition to integration among the member countries, it is necessary to adopt measures on different fronts in order to fight contraband. &#8220;Actions need to be taken by everyone in the areas of tax, regulatory, policing and control, diplomatic, and legislative, since this is a multifaceted problem that impacts all of society,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, for example, <span class=\"xn-location\">Brazil<\/span> became the largest global market for illegal cigarettes, with 48% of the brands sold in the country smuggled in from <span class=\"xn-location\">Paraguay<\/span>. This is the type of trade that brings great losses to <span class=\"xn-location\">Brazil<\/span>, with more than <span class=\"xn-money\">R$ 43 billion<\/span> in taxes not collected since 2011, which amount could have gone back to benefit the Brazilian people. And in <span class=\"xn-location\">Paraguay<\/span>, the activities of criminal organizations cause increased violence, encourage corruption, theft of freight, drug trafficking, arms trafficking, and money laundering in the region.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">Argentina<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Bolivia<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Brazil<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Chile<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Colombia<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Costa Rica<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Ecuador<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Guatemala<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Honduras<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Panama<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Paraguay<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Peru<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Uruguay<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Venezuela<\/span> are all members of ALAC.<\/p>\n<p>Fl\u00e1vio Simonetti<br \/>+55 (11) 99393-2161<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  ETCO<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SAO PAULO<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">August 28, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/\u00a0&#8212; This week the Latin American Anti-Contraband Alliance (ALAC) is meeting for the first time in <span class=\"xn-location\">Brazil<\/span>. The objective of the event, which includes authorities and specialists from 15 countries, is to establish shared actions between governments and civil entities to fight the illegal trade of products such as cigarettes, textiles, drinks, sporting goods, audio-visual products, and food.<\/p>\n<p>The commitment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gobierno-y-politica"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}