Brazil Black Market Value: $17 Billion
World Average: $15.54 Billion
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Data on Brazil
Number of animals taken from the Amazon Rainforest
38 million animals are taken from the Amazon Rainforest each year for the purpose of animal trafficking.
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- Tags: Brazil, wildlife smuggling | October 10th, 2009
Wildlife Trade in Brazil generates $2 billion
The illegal wildlife trade in Brazil generates $2 Billion in revenue, according to Brazilian trafficking organization Renctas.
The Brazilian market makes up to 10 percent of the total illegal trade in wildlife.
Source: brazilmax.com, “Combating Brazilian Wildlife Traffic: Activist Dener Giovani ,” Renctas, August 19, 2006. Accessed on August 7, 2009.
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- Tags: Brazil, wildlife smuggling | August 7th, 2009
94 percent of video games in Brazil are pirated
The Brazilian Association for the Development of Video Games finds that up to 94 percent of all video games sold in Brazil are pirated.
Source: Pedro Franco, “A Nation of Pirates,” Escapist, May 12, 2009.
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- Tags: Brazil, video game piracy | July 31st, 2009
Price of Marijuana in the Americas
Price is in US Dollars and represents the typical price of Marijuana in the Americas.
| Country | Wholesale Price (per kilogram |
Retail Price (per gram) |
| Argentina | 400 | 1.3 |
| Bolivia | 115 | 0.8 |
| Brazil | 150 | 0.3 |
| Canada | 4,714.3 | 15 |
| Chile | 1,223 | 5.3 |
| Colombia | 40.3 | 0.4 |
| Mexico | 80 | NA |
| United States | 2,000 | 10.4 |
| Venezuela | 90 | 1.9 |
Source: UNODC, “World Drug Report 2009: Section 3.4 Prices, pages 215 to 234,” June 2009.
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- Tags: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Marijuana Black Market, Mexico, Venezuela | June 26th, 2009
Price of Cocaine in the Americas
Price is in US Dollars and represents the typical price of Cocaine in the Americas.
| Country | Wholesale Price (per kilogram |
Retail Price (per gram) |
| Argentina | 4,800 | 5.9 |
| Bolivia | 2,250 | 3.5 |
| Brazil | 3,000 | 12 |
| Canada | 33,834 | 96.8 |
| Chile | 14,600 | 26.6 |
| Colombia | 2,198 | NA |
| Mexico | 12,500 | NA |
| Peru | 851 | NA |
| United States | 28,500 | 97.4 |
Source: UNODC, “World Drug Report 2009: Section 3.4 Prices, pages 215 to 234,” June 2009.
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Price of Ecstasy in the Americas
Price is in US Dollars and represents the typical price of Ecstasy in the Americas.
| Country | Wholesale Price (per thousand tablets) |
Retail Price (per tablet) |
| Argentina | 4,666 | NA |
| Brazil | 15,000 | 12 |
| Canada | 5,135.3 | 20.7 |
| Chile | 17,241.4 | 25 |
| Colombia | NA | 22.6 |
| Dominican Republic | 16,000 | 19 |
| Guatemala | 6,550 | 7.9 |
| United States | 10,000 | 25 |
| Venezuela | NA | 9.4 |
Source: UNODC, “World Drug Report 2009: Section 3.4 Prices, pages 215 to 234,” June 2009.
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- Tags: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, dominican republic, ecstasy, Guatemala, Venezuela | June 26th, 2009
Price of Heroin in the Americas
Prices are in US Dollars and represent the typical price of Heroin in the Americas.
| Country | Wholesale Price (per kilogram) |
Retail Price (per gram) |
| Argentina | 110,000 | NA |
| Brazil | 50,000 | 50 |
| Canada | 99,389.1 | 335.5 |
| Colombia (No.4) | 9,992 | 20.1 |
| Ecuador | 13,500 | NA |
| Mexico (No.4) | 35,000 | NA |
| United States (No.4) | 71,200 | 131 |
| Venezuela | 9,300 | 11.6 |
Source: UNODC, “World Drug Report 2009: Section 3.4 Prices, pages 215 to 234,” June 2009.
Upper Class Ecstasy dealers in Brazil
Law enforcement officials in Brazil have begun targeting well-educated and financially secure teenagers and young adults in their crackdown on the popular club drug ecstasy. According to a report in the New York Times, more and more young people are being arrested and charged for the trafficking of ecstasy. In 2007, police seized 211,000 ecstasy pills, 17 times more than the year before. In 2008, 132,621 pills were seized in the country.
Read the article “Ecstasy Ensnares Upper-Class Teenagers in Brazil” at the New York Times here.
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- Tags: Brazil, ecstasy | February 23rd, 2009
