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The Internationalization of Organized Crime in Brazil

by Robert Muggah, Gustavo Diniz

Published: 2023

Publisher: Brookings Institution

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Regions: Brazil
PCCtransnational crimecocaine

Analysis of how Brazilian criminal groups, particularly the PCC, have expanded from domestic prison gangs into transnational organizations controlling cocaine exports through the Port of Santos, partnering with the ‘Ndrangheta, and establishing operations in Mozambique and West Africa as staging points for European and Asian markets.