Security & Strategic Review May 2011 (ISSN 1741-4202)

A sudden spike in violent actions by the Brazilian drug gang Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) has shaken Paraguay, once again, into awareness of the growing threat to public security they, and their counterparts of the Comando Vermelho, pose in the border region. It is now increasingly evident that the Brazilian gangs see that region as more than just a way station for their traffic in drugs and weapons.