As contribuições brasileiras contra a pirataria no Golfo da Guiné

Abstract

The South Atlantic is the great Brazilian maritime border, also has been the country’s main commercial exchange route since colonial times. This region, a Brazil’s Strategic Environment, is the target of criminals who try to get hold of the wealth that circulates there. On the east seashore, is the African continent and, particularly in the Gulf of Guinea, these criminal actions are active, with the region currently being considered the focus of piracy in the world. Aware of the need to create a stable environment in the South Atlantic, Brazil has been developing several actions in African countries bordering the Gulf of Guinea, with the intention of helping to reduce this issue. Thereby, this work will use statistical and conceptual data, evaluating the brazilian contribution, in the last decade, in confronting crimes related to piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, and relating it to those provided for in the national defense documents that propose the strengthening of the Zone of South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation (ZOPACAS, in the portuguese acronym) as a path to security in this portion of our Strategic Environment.