Brazil Seeks US Help to Fight Organized Crime, Weapons Smuggling

Civil Police officers patrol a street in the Cidade de Deus neighborhood during a police operation in Rio de Janeiro. 

Photographer: Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images

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Brazil will seek US help to combat organized crime as part of ongoing trade negotiations, Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said Thursday, after a police operation targeting tax evasion and money laundering in the country’s fuel sector.