More than nine million tourists visit the Triple Frontier area each year, to see the mighty Iguassu Falls, gamble at casinos or to shop in the hundreds of shops that line both sides of the Parana River, which forms the border of the three countries.
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CIUDAD DEL ESTE, Paraguay _ The Triple Frontier where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay meet has long been South America's busiest contraband and smuggling center, a corrupt, chaotic place where just about anything from drugs and arms to pirated software and bootleg whisky are available to anyone who can pay the price.
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The triple frontier " is something that very much has crept up on the radar screen of the U . S .'s interests, probably even more so than anything in the region including Colombia, " said Miguel Diaz, director of the South American Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
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TRIPLE-FRONTIER ( Ciudad del Este, Paraguay ) _ The Triple Frontier, where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay meet, has long been South America's busiest contraband and smuggling center, a corrupt, chaotic place where just about anything from drugs and arms to pirated software and bootleg whisky is available to anyone who can pay the price.
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The Bush administration said on Friday that it had grown increasingly worried about the activities of Islamic militants in the Triple Frontier region, where the borders of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay meet, and that it was stepping up efforts to stanch what it says is the flow of funds from the largely unregulated area to terrorist groups in the Middle East.
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EXP-TRIPLE-FRONTIER ( Ciudad del Este, Paraguay ) _ The Triple Frontier, where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay meet, has long been South America's busiest contraband and smuggling center, a corrupt, chaotic place where just about anything from drugs and arms to pirated software and bootleg whisky is available to anyone who can pay the price.
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Bacileff said that Capitanich had lost control of the province and described it as being in a state of anarchy . One report noted that the province is located near the smuggling hub of the Triple Frontier, which is a major transit point for drugs smuggled out of Paraguay and into Argentina, and that the Sinaloa Cartel allegedly produces and distributes synthetic drugs in the province.
