Brazil rejects US request to designate two gangs as terrorist organizations

Source: Reuters

Brazil rejects US request to designate two gangs as terrorist organizations

Reuters in Brasília
Wed 7 May 2025 18.03 EDT
Last modified on Wed 7 May 2025 18.14 EDT

The Brazilian government has rejected a request by the US state department to designate two major criminal gangs as terrorist organizations, according to Mario Sarrubo, Brazil’s national secretary of public security.

Sarrubo said the request was made on Tuesday during a meeting between US and Brazilian officials in Brasília.

The US officials were concerned about the gangs Primeiro Comando da Capital, known as PCC, and Comando Vermelho, known as CV, which control territories in several Brazilian cities and are believed to have members in the US.

Trump has been trying to tie his aggressive crackdown on immigration to the presence of members of Latin American criminal gangs in US cities. Earlier this year, the US government designated several crime factions as terrorist organizations, including Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua and El Salvador’s MS-13, as well as Mexican cartels and Haitian gangs.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/07/brazil-gangs-terrorist-designation-pcc-comando-vermelho