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
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.