When the First Capital Command (Primeiro Comando da Capital – PCC) took over the brightly-colored hillside favelas in São Paulo, Brazil’s most powerful gang also brought the criminal underworld under ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Bloomberg) -- With a soothing score and the big board of Latin America’s biggest stock exchange blinking in the background, the ...

SÃO PAULO—A Brazilian gang founded in the country’s violent prisons is fast becoming one of the world’s biggest criminal organizations, reshaping global cocaine flows from South America to Europe’s ...

Brazilian and other multinational companies with operations in Latin America can no longer be focused exclusively on exposure to Mexican cartels ...

“In return, the PCC handled transport, logistics and sales — to Europe, Africa, and beyond.” From friends to rivals Until then, the Red Command and PCC were not enemies. But their fragile coexistence ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Some of the suspects arrested for setting fire to sugarcane fields in Sao Paulo state told police they are linked to an organized crime gang and were retaliating for anti-crime ...

Caldic, a global chemicals distributor majority-owned by U.S. private equity firm Advent International, is under ...