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Country Analysis: Brazil

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Brazil: Overview
Country ID: • Active Defence Personal: xxx,xxx • Reserve Personal: x,xxx,xxx • Defence Budget: $xx.x Billion • Budget in Per cent of GDP: x.x%Brazil is one of the developing nations with a huge budget towards defence and security. The country has been a key enduser market for some or even most of the advanced equipment used by the pioneeringnations. It is one of the most countries aimed at developing its domestic industry in order to maximize productions and in order to capitalize export orders.

Brazil has a more substantial anddiverse offering of indigenous armaments companies that are able to provide equipment to the armed forces. The Brazilian Government has been forced to change the rules for military procurements, therebyenabling it to formulate an industrial defence policy. The Brazilian companies will not benefit substantially from the increased defence budget. For example, the construction of the weaponry, hull andcybernetic stuffing for the possible nuclear submarine project would be in Brazil. Meanwhile, developing countries will continue to take imports from the Brazilian companies as their products carry areputation of being good value for money. Internal security problems continue to be a concern for Brazil, especially the Amazon Basin, where Brazil shares around xx,xxx km of border with seven othercountries, over which the government does not have a strong hold in terms of the rule of law, or in the Triple Border region, where Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay meet. The prevalence of drug-smuggling,gun-running, bio-piracy, illegal deforestation and environmental destruction by gold mines will remain key concerns for Brazil, irrespective of the status of relations between Venezuela and Colombia.As drugs and guns enter Brazil through the borders of various countries, urban gang violence is supported. The problem is compounded in a legal environment, where the police and judicial systems are...