Brazil Failed (Again) to Confront Organized Crime

The Trump administration labeled Brazil’s CV and PCC as terrorist organizations, and a spotlight was pointed straight at Brasília (our Capital), and at the embarrassing habit this shit government has of acting like semantics matter more than dead bodies. Marco Rubio, now running State, said the obvious about these groups. They’re brutally violent, they don’t stop at Brazil’s borders, and they move money, weapons, drugs, people, influence… They export chaos through many regions and, yes, into the US. And this wasn’t a surprise for any sane Brazilian. In 2025, David Gamble, the State Department’s sanctions coordinator at the time, came to Brazil with a proposal tied to treating these factions as terrorist groups so the U.S. could hit them harder with sanctions. Reuters reported Lula’s government rejected that approach and repeated the line that Brazil doesn’t classify CV and PCC as terrorist organizations. Give me a break. If another country offers tools to squeeze the financial…