Organized crime in Brazil has changed—and expanded—considerably in recent years, with new midsize criminal groups emerging in northern states and the country’s most powerful faction—the First Capital Command, known by its Portuguese acronym PCC—expanding its global reach. Despite being imprisoned, these groups’ leaders are the most powerful criminals in Brazil, and the country’s prisons have become one of their most important nodes of power.

From its prison base, the PCC has expanded aggressively to directly control the drug trafficking route from Bolivian coca-growing areas and, through Paraguay and Brazil, to export markets in West Africa and Europe via the port of Santos near São Paulo. Control of this coveted route has provoked a bloody war with the Rio de Janeiro-based Red Command and helped spur regional criminal groups to try to counter the PCC’s growing hegemony.

Deadly rivalries are commonplace in Latin America’s brutal criminal underworld. But this time the stakes involve a fight for outright hegemony in one of the world’s most important cocaine trafficking routes. Regional criminal organizations that had been largely marginal to cocaine trafficking suddenly gained outsized importance as potential allies for trafficking groups looking to thwart the PCC’s bid for dominance.


The consequences of this dynamic have been felt throughout the country, as clashes over contested and highly profitable routes, such as the so-called Solimões Route through the Amazon River, have “caused conflicts and large prison massacres,” according to Marcio Christino, a criminal prosecutor from São Paulo with years of experience investigating organized crime. Whereas well-armed, highly organized criminal groups were once nearly exclusive to Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo states, the Bolsonaro administration now faces upstart groups in the impoverished north, such as the Northern Family in Amazonas, the Crime Syndicate (formed by PCC defectors) in Rio Grande do Norte, and the Guardians of the State in Ceará.

Many of these groups have displayed a startling propensity for violence and mass disruption with little or no advanced warning. That’s how they demand concessions from local and regional governments, such as unfettered communication with imprisoned leaders, and pressure authorities to keep important leaders in the command structure away from maximum security facilities.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/08...RAB&usg=AOvVaw2IAwEPNtwgB3_6mLzcN1j-

A lot of cocaine ending up in Antwerp these days originates from Brazilian groups; about 20%, which is a lot.

The Brazilian groups are a bit less known in the European and Northern American hemisphere because in contrast to other groups, there seems to be very low emigration from Brazil to other countries so Brazilians don't seem to create local enclaves in big Western Cities (like Mexicans and Salvadorans in the Southwest, Puerto Ricans and Dominicans in the Northeast, Colombians and Cubans in Florida, Jamaicans and Haitians in Florida and Canada or Curaçaoans in the Netherlands). So you never read headlines like "Brazilian drug trafficking cell busted in New Jersey".

Groups like the PCC seem to have control over quite a few ports in Brazil and their drug exporting business is conducted with plenty of professionalism. Which is in sharp contrast with the explosions of chaotic disorder they create in prison. If you look up videos of Brazilian prison riots there's violence on a Mexican cartel-like scale with people having their heads smashed and torn from their bodies with bricks, eyes being gouged out, disembowelments...it's completely insane.

Actually they have a large size diaspora. About half of it in the U.S around 1.3 million ( Boston, NYC, Miami, ). Europe: U.K, Portugal ( no surprise) , Spain ( again no surprise) , Germany, & Italy have the largest Brazilian communuties plus a few more. Overall estimated to be 911,000 Brazilians in Europe.
Source: http://www.brasileirosnomundo.itama...vas%20-%20Terceira%20Edicao%20-%20v2.pdf

Damn, didn't know this. Weird that you basically never hear about organized crime in the Brazilian diaspora community, given how endemic it is in Brazil itself. Back in the 80's there weren't even 100,000 Colombians in South Florida and there was a lot of organized crime going on with them. The Brazilian migrants don't seem to be upper class either; I guess they have found a way to keep their gangsters in their home country.

I doubt it. Most likely it's active just not to a large scale, similar with Greek OC in the U.S.

Brazilian women are absolutely amazing, I fuck with a lot of them here in Jersey. They usually have the most incredible bodies ever and are porn stars in bed. I hope more and more Brazilian women come over here to Jersey, keep ‘em coming!

Pro Tip: Go to the Brazilian bars/Restaurants/Clubs in the Newark Ironbound to pick them up , a lot of them are desperate for a Gringo to get citizenship and live a better life. Most of the young Brazilian women come over here as Au Pairs (Nanny’s) and then stay here illegally. The strip club Brazilians in the Ironbound are usually more shady than the ones u will pick up in the Brazilian Bars, Restaurants, and Clubs. A lot of them Worship Gringos and is usually one of the sole reasons they came here to America and let their Au Pair status run out is to meet a Gringo and have a better life in America.

God, I’m about to call one of the Brazilian girls I fuck with now, I just saw her on Saturday but damn....

Lol I never did a Brazilian woman so I can't really speak on whether they do their reputation justice or not
I once did end up with a Dominican chick and a Colombian chick though.

Stay on topic.

Come on, you can't expect a thread about Brazil to NOT turn into a Roosh V blog post

I thought you were settling down, Dante.

Brazilian people are supposed to be very friendly. I haven't had coitus with any of them personally but my brother has. He used to teach English to foreign students. It's not just the women, the men are very laid back as well.

A professional footballer over there was castrated and murdered a year ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Correa_Freitas.

And we've all heard about John Alite's time in prison over there, and all the gruesome prison riots.

Brazilian prison riots are the most insane thing on planet earth. Complete carnage.

Colombian women are even hotter than Brazilians I think. Dominicans are great too depending on what your preference is . Damn I love living in Jersey because we have large immigrants groups of all the countries with smokeshow Broads who are absolutely hot and easy. Anyone here ever visiting Jersey do yourselves a favor and hit up Newark Ironbound for Brazilian women, Paterson for Dominican women, and The Lobby in Elizabeth for Colombians. Dante is schooling here, you are welcome. Sorry for derailing this thread but I love Latina women .....

@Thekillingjoke

Plenty of space in general topic for that theme. OC related themes here.

I wouldn't know what to do with them.

The recent arrests of two members of the 'Ndrangheta in São Paulo have further highlighted the increasingly close partnership between the Italian mafia and Brazil's PCC.

You can add the Yakuza & Nigerians too.

The 'Ndrangheta's key supplier arrested in Africa after 20 years.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ue-gilberto-fuminho-aparecido-dos-santos

In the Brazilian city of Santos, a chief inspector of the local port was liquidated a week ago. Valter Barbosa (55) was murdered in his car in front of his wife on the Régis Bittencourt highway. Large loads of cocaine are transported from the port of Santos to Europe, Africa and Asia. A lot of coke ends up in the Netherlands.

Brazilian authorities are investigating the murder of Barbosa, who was about to become director of infrastructure and logistics for the port of Imbituba, in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. According to the police report, after the liquidation, the shooters ran off with mobile phones and wallets.

''André do Rap'' (one of the leaders) was recently released from the prison and disappeared after some hours, police and the interpool are looking for him. https://oglobo.globo.com/brasil/que...-hoje-apos-ser-solto-pelo-stf-1-24691477

For a lot of these guys is MMA, soccer or music the only way to get out of the favela.

That's right, I have a lot of friends that lives in the favelas.