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An NGO warns that the increase in violence due to the establishment of drug gangs in the largest tropical forest in the world must be included in the environmental debate
The Primer Comando da Capital - known as the 'First Capital Command' or PCC, is largely responsible for what officials have described as a 'tsunami' of cocaine and violence flooding Europe
La Paz, Nov 30 (Prensa Latina) The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially initiated procedures for a critical review of the coca leaf, a move that could have significant implications for international drug policy and indigenous cultures in South America. This undertaking comes in response to a request from a Member State seeking to reassess the properties of the coca leaf.
According to an article in The Economist last week, Brazil's largest drug gang now has links throughout Europe. The First Capital Command (PCC), a gang officially born after a deadly football match between prison inmates in São Paulo in August 1993, has grown to some 40,000 life members and another 60,000 “contractors,” which would make it one of the world's largest criminal groups.
An analysis of the regional impact