Trabalho ou crime: reflexões sobre o comércio clandestino de combustíveis na cidade de Tabatinga

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes the smuggling and sale of fuels in Tabatinga, Amazonian city of the Brazil-Colombia-Peru triple border, seeking to understand the meaning that the practice represents for the respective subjects and other social actors of this frontier space. In order to understand the proposed question, he confronts the problem with a critical analysis of the meaning of work and its local expressions - especially precarious work - and of the social arrangements in the search for survival in the frontier space of the Brazilian Amazon. It is a multidisciplinary analysis, based on concepts from the areas of sociology, geography, legal sciences, among others. We chose as method of investigation the bibliographical research, both in the national and foreign literature, direct observation (non-participant) and documentary research, especially through criminal case files of the Federal Court of Tabatinga. This work shows the inefficiency of the public policies of the Brazilian State, both in the regulation and structuring of logistics for the supply of fuel products to regions that are distant from national production and distribution centers, such as Tabatinga, as well as policies for economic and social development. of these peripheral regions of the country. It reveals that the structure of formal supply of the product is very precarious, which causes frequent shortages and foments the clandestine commerce of the product in the city. On the other hand, there is a persistent degradation of labor relations in the border region, responsible for the high levels of informality and precariousness of these relations, due to the inexistence or inefficiency of the public policies of social inclusion and economic development of these Brazilian regions, especially frontiers and the Western Amazon, whose rates show enormous disparities in relation to the national average. It is understood, therefore, that the informal fuel trade in the Triple Frontier is an expression of the inefficiency of the Brazilian State with regard to its mission of promoting the reduction of regional inequalities, social, economic and national productive structures, through promotion of decent work and social justice.