Majority of Brazilians support designating PCC and CV as terrorist organizations

The classification debate reflects ongoing violence and criminal activity by PCC and CV factions affecting Brazilian communities and public safety.

Brazil stands at a crossroads familiar to societies long tested by organized violence: the question of whether to reframe criminal power as something more existential, and what that reframing costs. A majority of Brazilians now support designating the PCC and CV — two criminal empires born in prisons and grown into transnational forces — as terrorist organizations, a designation that would mark not just a legal shift but a philosophical one in how the state defines its enemies. Legal scholars urge caution, reminding that such labels, once applied, rarely come undone, and that symbolic power do

Majority of Brazilians support designating PCC and CV as terrorist organizations

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