How Real Is the Threat? eyesonbrasil Brazil’s diplomatic establishment rarely uses the language it used this week. In a formal response to the Chamber of Deputies, Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira put in writing something Brazilian officials have mostly avoided saying out loud: that the United States’ terrorism designation of two Brazilian criminal factions carries a…
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eyesonbrasil For years, Washington and Brasília argued over a word. Was the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) and Comando Vermelho (CV) — Brazil’s two dominant criminal factions, together commanding tens of thousands of members and a cocaine-export machine that reaches from the Amazon to the Port of Santos to the streets of Europe — a…
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Why Lula Won’t Sign On to Latin America’s New War on Cartels eyesonbrasil When the leaders of Mercosur gathered in the Paraguayan city of Luque at the end of June 2026, organized crime dominated the agenda almost as much as trade. Bolivia’s president called for a new South American security architecture. Brazil’s own president, Luiz…
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