A Brazilian former prison gang is threatening to turn its neighbour into a narcostate and its deadly tentacles extend much further
Three suspects are in the custody of police, who say there is no sign of a broader conspiracy, but local Indigenous activistselsewhere in the continent, including Uruguay, Argentina and Venezuela, has connections in the Caribbean, Europe and Africa, and launders profits through banks in China and the US.Igarapé InstituteParaguayan army soldiers are seen next to an army tank near a border prison in Pedro Juan Caballero.
“Brazil needs to pull back from its policy of mass incarceration” in order to dismantle the PCC’s powerbase in Brazil’s overcrowded prisons, he argued. “The only long-term solution is for Brazil to accelerate the decriminalisation of drugs.” But such policies are as distant a prospect in Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil as in Paraguay, where the governing conservative Colorado party has itself been regularly tied to narcotraffickers and organised crime.
Former president Horacio Cartes has repeatedly been accused of links to a vast money-laundering operation linked to cigarette smuggling and drug traffickers. Cartes, a powerful tobacco magnate, has denied any wrongdoing,
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