Dinâmicas da securitização do tráfico de drogas no arco de instabilidade Andino-Amazônico: o caso da Tríplice Fronteira Norte (Brasil – Colômbia – Peru)

Abstract

The main objective of this scientific article was to study the dynamics of drug trafficking securitization in the Andean-Amazonian Arc of Instability, having as its main point of analysis the Triple North Border, divided by Brazil (Tabatinga), Colombia (Letícia) and Peru (Santa Rosa do Javari). The main focus was on the consequences brought about by local drug trafficking and its implications for national security and defense, as well as its contribution to the instability of the Arc. Drug trafficking was studied as a preponderant threat to Amazonian countries and the International System. Thus, it was assumed that the greater the absence of the State and the fragility of coordinated multilateral actions in the region, the greater the permeability of the action of regional organized crime. The entire study was based on the theories of Securitization and the Regional Security Complex of the School of Copenhagen, through bibliographic investigations and national documentation related to the security and defense of Brazil. In this sense, we sought to understand the issue in the writings Buzan, Waever and Wilde, to classify drug trafficking as a threat capable of becoming a public security and defense issue, resulting in a threat to society, making the subject progress from the “non-politicized” to the “securitized” field.