The Bitter Fruits of Open Borders: Brazil’s Top Drug Smuggling Syndicate Now in Oz! By Paul Walker
I wonder what took them so long to get into Australia, since everyone else is here? The First Capital Command (PCC), Brazil's largest transnational organized crime syndicate and Latin America's largest drug trafficking gang, now has set up cells in Sydney, in collaboration with a local motorcycle gang controlled by Italy's "Ndrangheta mafia," one of the oldest Italian mafia organizations and a longstanding business partner. Great networking here.
Well, this is cultural diversity in action, and no doubt our once dull, but now long-gone Anglo-Saxon culture, what memories remain, will be enriched. Just asking, but would it really be much of a difference if the entire country was run by drug lords, instead of what we have now? Isn't the political class just a big criminal gang anyway? We literally see this in the United States, with its lawfare activities abandoning the rule of law. Would the drug lords want to see peoples' standard of living crash, when they could be spending their money on drugs? Would drug lords advocate open doors immigration, which could impact negatively on their business, bringing in rival terrorists? Just joking but the thought experiment does show how bad our political class is. Drug lords may do less harm than our government, and at least these lords did not lock entire populations in their houses until free only to be injected with an experimental gene therapy!
"The First Capital Command (PCC), Brazil's largest transnational organized crime syndicate and Latin America's largest drug trafficking gang, has managed to establish a foothold in Sydney, Australia, according to a report published by the Argentine news outlet Infobae on Thursday.
Infobae reported that, according to information reviewed by the news outlet and reports from the Australian Federal Police (AFP), PCC has set up two cells in Sydney operating in collaboration with a local motorcycle gang controlled by Italy's 'Ndrangheta mafia — one of the oldest Italian mafia organizations and a longstanding business partner of PCC in Brazil.
The PCC, described by the U.S. Department of the Treasury in 2021 as "the most powerful organized crime group in Brazil and among the most powerful in the world," was originally founded by a group of inmates of Sao Paulo's Taubaté Penitentiary in 1993 following a violent soccer match between inmates that ended with at least two dead.
Over the past 30 years, PCC has dramatically grown into a full-fledged transnational crime and drug trafficking syndicate boasting over 40,000 members and some 60,000 "contractors." The PCC has expanded its activities beyond Brazil to the United States, as well as other South American, African, and European nations.
PCC is believed to have formed alliances with other South American drug trafficking organizations, including Venezuela's Tren de Aragua, which also has an active presence in the United States.
The criminal activities conducted by PCC — which range from murder, prison riots, drug and human trafficking, bank and highway robberies, kidnappings and ransom, money laundering, bribery, loan sharking, and obstruction of justice — reportedly have generated revenues of at least $1 billion since 2020.
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