Paraguayan police raided a ranch believed to have been used by a member of Brazilian drug gang the PCC, one of at least five who escaped from a prison close…
Authorities said they had arrested a hitman with links to Comando Vermelho, one of Brazils most dangerous gangs, in the department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
Brazilian police warned that Paraguay has become a base of operations for Brazil's criminal organizations, which are seeking to cut middlemen out of the drug trade that goes through the…
Paraguay captured five alleged members of Brazilian gang Red Command (Comando Vermelho), a sign of Brazil's organized crime stretching out into the neighboring country in the wake of recent security…
The Brazil that President Barack Obama will visit in the coming days is one that is being torn asunder by drug trafficking and violence. Akin to the violence…
Brazil's police and military are continuing their crackdown on Rio's powerful organized criminal gangs.
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