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How a Brazilian prison gang became an international criminal leviathan

In a forest clearing deep in the Brazilian Amazon, a bullet-scarred Venezuelan gangster sat smoking Colombian skunk. While his sidekicks mingled under the ice-cream bean tree where they sell crack, cocaine and weed, the outlaw proclaimed their faction’s motto.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/11/pcc-brazil-drug-trade-gang