The United States intends to designate two Brazilian criminal organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated on Thursday. The designations will take effect from June 5 and will apply to the Comando Vermelho (Red Command) and Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC).
The State Department will announce that it is planning to designate Brazil's two most powerful organized criminal syndicates as terrorist organizations. Bloomberg identified these groups as Brazil's two main organized crime groups.
According to Bloomberg, this move will likely reignite tensions between Donald Trump and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The announcement represents a significant designation by the U.S. government regarding transnational criminal organizations operating in Brazil.
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