InSight Crime

Brazil’s New ‘Terrorist’ Groups – the PCC and the Red Command – Explained

The US designated Brazil’s two largest criminal organizations, the First Capital Command and the Red Command, as terrorist organizations.
Houston Chronicle

How crime in Brazil drags down the economy and heaps economic pain on the nation’s poor

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Robert Muggah, Instituto Igarapé; Princeton University (THE CONVERSATION) Brazil’s ...
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

UNODC Brazil, SENAD and UNDP launch first-of-its-kind index on vulnerability of Indigenous territories to organized crime in Brazil

The Centre for Studies on Drugs and Community Social Development (Cdesc), a partnership between the United Nations Office on ...
AOL

Brazil carries out raids in crackdown on organized crime in the fuel sector

SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazilian police and tax officials carried out a series of raids early on Thursday across the country targeting multibillion-dollar money laundering and ...
France 24

Brazil’s Lula launches anti-organised crime plan amid rising security pressure before elections

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Tuesday launched a new anti-organized crime plan, seeking to counter mounting security concerns five months before elections. Lula said the ...
WLRN

How crime in Brazil drags down the economy and heaps economic pain on the nation’s poor

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Robert Muggah is affiliated with Igarapé Institute and ...