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Weekly Report - 29 August 2006
BRAZIL: Police looking into PCC's 'PT connection'
The São Paulo police has opened an investigation to determine whether
there are any links between the federally ruling Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT)
and the gang known as the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), responsible for two
bloody campaigns of violence since early May. What has prompted the
investigation was a wiretap in which an alleged PCC member relayed instructions
to target politicians - except those of the PT.
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