The Brazilian government is working very hard to stop the drug “mules”. Mules is the term used to refer to people who try to sneak drugs across borders. Currently this is a huge issue in the country of Brazil, Sao Paulo is the international airport and is fastest growing people trying to smuggle cocaine from Latin America to Europe via Africa. According to the Governor of Sao Paulo Brazil; Andre Franco Montoro stated that the international airport has become the preferred exit point for mules. The reason is because it has direct flights nearly every country in the North and South America. 
According to Brazilian authorities, they stated that they seed 2.1 tons of cocaine last year, and it is estimated that this year that number will increase. As the figures shows the record is about to break this year. Just in the first three weeks of June 2009, there has been 180k of cocaine confiscated from mules traveling to different countries. The way Brazilian authorities are trying to detect and apprehend the mules in the international airport is by monitoring suspicious people and once they get in the check in area to check deeply for any drugs they might be carrying.
Some countries such as Bolivia, Peru and Colombia drug traffickers use Brazil’s international airport as their transit country to various others countries. Drug traffickers are mostly interested in using women mules; just this year there was been about 400 to 450 foreign women arrested for carrying drugs. Women are more prone to accept in being a mule for the following reasons. Many women are poor and are in need of money to feed their families because many of them are single parents. Becoming mules is an easy way to obtain money, this is the reason women mules are in the rise.http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/07/200973171714167731.html
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/07/200973173331208733.html
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