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Brazil & Southern Cone - October 2017 (ISSN 1741-4431)
Crime and politics
“The concept of organised crime should not become banal”, declared Bonifácio de Andrada, a deputy in Brazil’s federal congress. Andrada was referring not to drug trafficking organisations (DTOs) but to the mounting allegations that Brazil’s top politicians have cultivated their own “criminal” networks.
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