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US designates Brazil's Comando Vermelho and Primeiro Comando da Capital as foreign terrorist organizations

US designates Brazil's Comando Vermelho and Primeiro Comando da Capital as foreign terrorist organizations

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On Thursday, the United States designated Brazil’s Red Command and First Capital Command as terrorist organizations. The move has increased tensions with Brasília, which strongly opposes the designation.

Marco Rubio
Republican Party
1. The Trump Administration will continue to use all available tools to protect our nation and our national security interests by keeping illicit drugs off our streets and disrupting the revenue streams funding violent narco-terrorists.
2. CV and PCC are two of the most violent criminal organisations in Brazil.
3. Today's action taken by the State Department further demonstrates the Trump Administration's unwavering commitment to dismantling cartels and criminal organizations in our region and ensuring the safety of the American people.
4. Their influence and illicit networks extend far beyond Brazil's borders, across our region and into our country.
5. CV and PCC are two of the most violent criminal organizations in Brazil. Together, they command thousands of members and have orchestrated brutal attacks against Brazilian police officers, public officials, and civilians.
Luis Inácio Lula Da Silva
Workers Party
1. If you want to fight organized crime, hand over our criminals who are in the United States.
2. Do not play games with the sovereignty of this country. Do not play games with our democracy.
3. I spent three hours with President Trump – three whole hours.
4. They are not the kind of terrorists that Trump is looking for. Trump wants an Osama Bin Laden figure.
5. They are terrorists because they torment families, they torment neighborhoods, and they torment the city.
6. Mr Marco Rubio was not there, possibly because he was busy helping the son of a Bolsonarista who is running for election in this country, someone who has no shame in betraying our homeland by going to the United States and asking for American intervention in Brazil.
7. It is deplorable that members of the Bolsonaro family once again travel to the United States to advocate foreign intervention in Brazil, as they did over the tariffs, which caused so much damage to our country.
8. We do not accept being treated like little boys. We do not accept being treated as if we were some tinpot country.
Rodrigo Paz Pereira
Partido Demócrata Cristiano
1. If in eight days Bolivia can be with Trump and with Lula, give Bolivia credit.
Celso Amorim
1. Public security is a key topic for social economic development. Organized crime is an evil that must be fought. International cooperation is welcome, especially in matters of money laundering and arms trade. (But) pretext for intervention is unacceptable.
Flavio Bolsonaro
Liberal Party
1. I worked to ensure they were treated as terrorists, which is what they are. One in four Brazilians lives in areas controlled by this terrorist scum, meaning they have no sovereignty even within their own homes.
2. We continue strengthening international relations, defending freedom, democracy and the values that unite millions of Brazilians and Americans.
3. On a trip as a presidential candidate, we did more for Brazil and for the security of Brazilians than Lula.
Thomas Traumann
1. Lula's best moment in the polls was after Trump imposed tariffs against Brazil and he revived a narrative on national sovereignty. It is likely he will do it again.
2. Flávio Bolsonaro's campaign was hit by his problematic businesses with a corrupted banker, he came to the Trump administration to ask for some help and he got this one.
Luis Flavio Sapori
Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais
1. Armed confrontation with young drug traffickers from the outskirts is ineffective and fails to deal with the complexity of money laundering and its links to financial crime.

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