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Argentina Strengthens Northern Border Patrol Against Smuggling Networks

The Security Ministry has redeployed federal gendarmerie forces along Argentina’s northern borders with Bolivia and Paraguay to target contraband and narcotics smuggling networks and protect formal economic activity in the Argentine Northwest.
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