Paraguayan President Santiago Peña has designated Brazil's criminal groups Comando Vermelho and Primeiro Comando da Capital, ...

Residents found more than 70 bodies following the previous day’s raid aimed at halting the spread of organized crime ...

Authorities were targeting Comando Vermelho, which has become Brazil’s second most powerful criminal organization ...

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a new law that increases penalties and expands enforcement tools intended to ...

The First Capital Command (Primeiro Comando da Capital – PCC) is Brazil’s biggest and best-organized criminal network. It was born in São Paulo in the 1990s and has forged a bloody path to dominance ...

The coronavirus pandemic is causing tectonic shifts in Latin America’s organized crime landscape. Weak state institutions provide criminal groups an opportunity to fill voids of socioeconomic and ...

Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), a Brazilian prison gang, staged a series of attacks in May that paralyzed the city of Sao Paulo. Subsequent waves of violence have raised concerns about the ...

More than 100 people were killed in Rio de Janeiro following a police raid against one of Brazil’s top drug cartels that has ...

Based on 18 months of field work in Brazil and Paraguay, this investigation explores the First Capital Command (Primeiro Comando da Capital – PCC), the hemisphere’s premier prison gang and one of the ...

Perspectives on Terrorism, Vol. 14, No. 4 (August 2020), pp. 64-82 (19 pages) The use of guerrilla and terrorist tactics by criminal gangs is not new or rare. However, there is very little research ...

The Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), which means the First Capital Command, is a Brazilian gang that operates from within the São Paulo state penitentiary system by means of cell phones and a ...

At least 18 inmates died in clashes in two separate penitentiaries in Brazil's Amazon region and more than three dozen escaped after a third prison riot.