Beyond The Horizon

ICYMI: The PCC Cartel And Their Pipeline Directly Into Europe

The PCC (Primeiro Comando da Capital) is a well-known criminal organization in Brazil, but it is not referred to as a "cartel." The PCC was originally formed in the late 1990s within the prison system but has since expanded its influence beyond prison walls, engaging in various criminal activities.Here is a general overview of the PCC:

Formation and Origins:
- The PCC was founded in 1993 within the São Paulo prison system.
- Originally formed as a prison gang, it later evolved into a criminal organization with significant influence both inside and outside the prison walls.
Expansion and Criminal Activities:
- The PCC has expanded its influence to various parts of Brazil and is particularly active in São Paulo.
- The organization engages in a wide range of criminal activities, including drug trafficking, arms smuggling, extortion, and bank robberies.
Hierarchy and Structure:
- The PCC has a hierarchical structure with leaders at the top who give orders to subordinates.
- The organization is known for its strict code of conduct and discipline among its members.
Violence and Conflict:
- The PCC has been involved in violent conflicts with rival gangs and law enforcement.
- Prison uprisings and attacks on public officials have been carried out to assert their influence and control.
International Connections:
- The PCC is known to have connections with other criminal organizations and drug cartels, both within Brazil and internationally.
Challenges for Law Enforcement:
- Brazilian authorities have faced challenges in combating the PCC due to its widespread influence and sophisticated operations.
- Efforts to dismantle the organization have often been met with violent resistance.

In this episode, we take a dive into the orginization and how they have made literally billions by sending cocaine to Europe.

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The ruthless Brazilian narcos bringing a 'tsunami' of cocaine to Europe's streets: How bloodthirsty 'PCC' cartel led by 'Playboy' boss went from prison gang to billion-pound-a-year drug smuggling behemoth linked to mafia around the world | Daily Mail Online

Duration:: 23m
Broadcast on:: 12 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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And all of those politicians out there that are beating the drum talking about if they got rid of the cartels that the drug war would be over, well they're lying to you. Because if it wasn't the Mexican cartel, stepping into the void here to provide the drugs, it would be a different cartel. And today we're going to talk about one of those other cartels, another South American cartel, that's very powerful. And that cartel is the PCC. Now this is a cartel that's based in Brazil, and they are one of the most ruthless cartels that you're ever going to run across. And while everybody's been focused on what's going on in Mexico, the PCC has been making some serious inroads in Europe. So today we have an article from the Daily Mail talking about the PCC and how they've become a big player when it comes to bringing cocaine and narcotics to Europe. Headline, the ruthless Brazilian narcos bringing a tsunami of cocaine to Europe's streets. How bloodthirsty PCC cartel led by Playboy boss went from prison gang to a billion pound a year drug smuggling behemoths linked to mafias around the world. When you're in a place like Brazil, and you have that sort of logistical ability, meaning you can send things out from all of those ports, you're in charge of all of the routes, you're going to have dominion. You see, it's all about being the supplier in the drug game. Everybody wants the connect, right? Nobody wants to be the middleman. Nobody wants to have to go through three people to get their load. And that's where the PCC is at. They're in control of just about everything that's going on down in Brazil when we're talking about the narco game. Now, of course, they have their rivals and all of that, but they certainly are the dominant force. This article was authored by David Avere. One terrifying drug cartel has transformed Brazil from a nation historically known for the consumption of cocaine into one of its most prolific exporters commanding the flow of narcotics from South America to Europe with ruthless efficiency and extreme violence. Look, it goes hand in hand, you're not going to be a narco at any level if you have an aversion to violence, because you can have one without the other. And I've said many, many times here on the podcast that this whole entire war on drugs is fueling the violence that we see not only in America, but everywhere else. It's all about money, right? And the biggest source of income for all of these groups is obviously narcotics. The first capital command or PCC is largely responsible for what officials have described as a tsunami of cocaine and violence flooding Europe streets in recent years. And while that is true, remember, they're sourcing their cocaine from Colombia, Bolivia or Peru. So what the PCC is doing is nothing more than what say CJNG or what Sinaloa does. They get the cocaine from Colombia, Peru or Bolivia, and then they sell that cocaine into the market in Europe or America. Remember, the Colombians at this point are just part of the production. It used to be the Colombians were in charge of the cocaine trade from start to finish, but that's the thing of yesteryear. And now the Colombians are just in charge of producing it in the country. PCC's involvement in the European drug trade is simply enormous, as one Brazilian prosecutor put it. If someone is using cocaine in France, England or Spain, there's a very good chance it got there through the hands of the PCC. So what would that mean? That would mean that they're working with who? The Kinahan cartel, right? Well, you already know, there are those documented ties that we already have on the books. And it shows you how powerful the Kinahan cartel is. It's not just their Mexican contacts, but it's their contacts with organized crime in general around the world. And in an industry where torture and murder are merely prerequisites, this organization stands head and shoulders above the competition. Look, they don't play around in Brazil. I don't know if you folks are familiar with the favelas down there and some of the ghettos, but it's all bad. And that's certainly not a place you want to be rolling around. At any point, never mind that night. If you're not invited to those favelas, you do not want to be down there, point blank period. The gang does not hesitate to exact gruesome punishment on any competitor or law enforcement official. That stands in their way with countless horrifying images displaying in shocking clarity, how PCC members dismember disembowel and decapitate their victims. I wonder where they learned that. Look, it's all about intimidation, folks. And that's why you see these horrific levels of violence. They want the next man to know that if you fuck around, you're gonna find out. And when they say find out, they don't mean just shoot you. It's gonna be a very painful way to go. And not only that, but chances are, they're gonna videotape the whole last thing. Now the cartel has a truly global reach, engaging in shady dealings with the likes of Italy's infamous Andrin Gata, Eastern European Mafia's and Nigeria's notorious Black Axe crime group to ship its cocaine around the world and receive black market weapons in return. Wait a minute, I thought that black market weapons weren't coming from Europe to go to South America or to go to Mexico. Isn't that what the legacy media tried to tell us? Well, I told you then that they were lying to you. And I'm telling you that again, right now, they're lying to you. Those weapons from Ukraine, weapons from Europe, weapons from Afghanistan, weapons from wherever, they're gonna end up in the hands of these cartels. You know why? Well, breaking news, they have the money to buy them. So to all the goofballs in the legacy media, the line starts directly to your right. So you can all start to apologize for your bullshit. But we know that won't happen. They won't even address the fact that they were bullshit new, talking about these weapons weren't gonna end up down there blah, blah, blah, and they won't even address it. Or they'll keep it moving. And they'll act like they told you that the whole entire time. It's amazing how they just roll with things when we're talking about the legacy media. And again, remember, it's all about building narratives for them. Oh, we can't have any chance of anybody, you know, looking at Ukraine with a crooked eye. Well, if those weapons are ending up in the hands of cartels, something needs to be done about it, right? And just ignoring the situation or the topic isn't going to make it go away. And it's certainly not going to make the fact that those weapons are ending up in the hands of groups like PCC any less real. Here, Mail Online lifts the lid on the dark operations of the PCC and explores how Brazil's most powerful criminal organization provides European cities with an endless supply of white gold. And we know how expensive cocaine is over in Europe. It's a gigantic market. And that's why all of these groups are attempting to establish a foothold there, whether it be through partnerships or sending their own operatives over. Since 2002, PCC has been led by Marcos Williams, Herbis Camacho, known as Markola or Playboy. Markola resides in a Brazilian max security lockup, serving a staggering 342 year prison sentence on all manner of charges related to crimes committed before and during his time in jail. But from his cell, he commands a vast criminal empire, official Brazilian estimates in 2018, put the number as high as 40,000 baptized members with tens of thousands more affiliated and contractors. So in other words, my dude has a bunch of saccarios that want to do wet work for him and have no problem coming to chop your head off. That's what they're telling you right here. Unlike most cartels, whose inception and subsequent growth are motivated by the simple desire to make money from drugs, the PCC, was born in the brutal Brazilian prison system, where inmates routinely fight to the death with police and guards or each other in bloody massacres. Yo Brazil's a wild place. I love the country to death, but it is a wild, wild place. And certainly not a place where I'd ever want to end up in jail. That's for damn sure. When I was a much younger man and I used to train jujitsu, I had a lot of Brazilian training partners and some of the stories that they would tell me about the favelas and how they grew up was straight up bananas. Following a horrendous purging of more than 100 prison inmates by armed police during a riot in one of Sao Paulo's largest prisons in 1992, a few incarcerated criminals at other institutions banded together forming a union that advocated for itself and fellow prisoners, negotiating with fists and weapons instead of words. Well, that's all war is, right? An extension of politics when the talking fails, and it's no different in prison if you don't think there's a political structure going on in prison or within these cartels and gangs, you are not paying attention. It's rank swelled rapidly as it recruited members from the prison population while admitting desperate new inmates plucked from the favelas by Sao Paulo police. And you know that they were fodder, right? Cannon fodder for days, some random that was just brought in off the streets? You know that person's gonna get the lowest of the low jobs and I can only imagine what that might be inside of Brazilian prisons. Before long, the fledgling criminal organization assumed control of its own jail, expanding beyond the prison walls and into the nefarious enterprises like drug trafficking, smuggling, robbery, and kidnapping. Through the 2000s, it executed a series of ruthless attacks on prison staff, police officers, and rival gangs, earning a notorious reputation that alarmed authorities but only made it more popular with the ambitious criminals. Well, yeah, look, unfortunately, if you're a criminal, you want to join the group that gets down, right? You're gonna make the most money with them, you're gonna be the most protected with them, and chances are, you might have some advancement. So yeah, you're gonna want to get with the group that's gonna be doing the shanking and not with the group that's gonna be getting the shanking. By the 2010s, the PCC had become so influential that it negotiated settlements and financial arrangements with various municipal and regional lawmakers in Brazil and beyond, who were outmatched by the cartel's power and thus agreed to allow the organization to police itself in exchange for reducing the level of gun and gang violence. That's what happens when you completely lose control of your criminal justice system. This is what happens, and unfortunately, the criminals certainly run the prisons just about everywhere in South America and hell, Mexico too. The PCC is now considered one of the world's most powerful and dangerous organizations, but its drug trade is by far the most lucrative of its endeavors, turning over more than a billion dollars each year. So you remember when we were talking about the whole entire sever the head strategy? Well, how's that work out? Even if you got rid of CJNG and you got rid of Sinaloa cartel tomorrow, do you think that groups like PCC are just gonna pack it in? They're not going to. And this is my big point that I make all the time when we're talking about the failed war on drugs, prohibitionist policies alone are not going to get us out of this. And we can take out as many cartel honchos as we want, but the results are going to be the same. A mass amount of drugs are going to reach the market in America and Europe and elsewhere until we deal with the addiction problems in the West. I know a lot of people don't want to hear that, but I'm not in the business of telling people what they want to hear. I'm in the business of telling you folks what you need to hear. The PCC is better organized, more powerful, and they have a monopoly of crimes and power, which is something nobody achieved. Said Ignacio Cano, a researcher at the Violence Analysis Center at Rio de Janeiro State University, they are by far the strongest criminal group in Brazil. The PCC's expansion into the drug trade came in the 2000s as its leaders established contacts with Colombian and Bolivian suppliers and smuggled its product through Paraguay and Bolivia to Brazil. But the real breakthrough came in the last decade when it gained control of key ports on Brazil's east coast. This unlocked a new transatlantic drug trade and with its skyrocketing profits. The Mexican cartels strictly controlling the flow of cocaine into the US, the PCC targeted Europe, where the market is smaller but the drugs can be sold at a higher price. And that's because getting them to market in Europe is so much more difficult. And they're not wrong here. With the Mexicans controlling every last route into America, you're not getting your drugs into America from South America without playing ball with the cartels. And that means it's going to cost you money, right? Anytime there's a middleman, you're coming out a few more bucks. And if you're a cartel leader, you don't want to do that. You're greedy. So what they do is they establish these new routes through these new ports, just like we see down in Colombia. And then they ship directly to Europe. And whether they're using the Kinahan cartel, or they're using the Andrin Gata, or they're using the Kamora or whoever, their partners are more than happy to receive these drugs. The CCC's aggressive expansion lies in its ability to strike mutually beneficial, peaceful partnerships with several infamous criminal organizations. Chief among them, which are Italy's world-renowned, Indra Geta mob, and Nigeria's Black Axe crime group. We all have somewhere we're trying to get to. As the largest energy producer in Colorado, Chevron is helping meet rising demand. And we're working to do it responsibly. 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The PCC's main entry points of Europe are believed to be Spain, Portugal, and Belgium, with yet more shipments entering via the Netherlands thanks to the well-established Moroccan Dutch crime network. After reaching Europe, the merchandise is distributed across the continent by Eastern European, Moroccan, and Italian mobsters partnered with the PCC. A 2022 report into the PCC's Brazil-West Africa drug operation by Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime revealed that hundreds of kilograms of cocaine destined for Antwerp, Algierias, the Canary Islands, and Nigeria were seized in Brazilian port of Santos alone every year from 2016 to 2022. But this is thought to be a tiny fraction of the quantities that successfully set sail from Brazil and other South American countries each year. While cocaine and other drugs are shipped out of Brazil across the world, the group receives plenty besides money in return, including frequent shipments of black market weapons. Ha, black market weapons again, huh? So keep that in mind, when all of this comes out, and it's going to come out, that weapons from Ukraine are finding their way into the hands of criminal groups down here in Mexico and South America. Remember who told you that? Over a year ago, and then ask yourself why the legacy media is so gung-ho on not telling you the truth. One particularly shocking relationship that law enforcement agencies believe the PCC maintains is with Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah, the Iran-aligned terror organization with close ties to Hamas. Look, there's no doubt. All of these groups, these terrorist organizations that talk all this shit about Islam this and Islam that, they don't give a fuck. All that Islam is to these groups is an armor and a way to manipulate people into doing what they want them to do. It's basically what Lori Valo and Chad Debel did with Alex Cox put on a gigantic massive scale, and nothing is more sickening to me than when people use religion as a precedent or as armor for their disgusting behavior. Hezbollah's activities in South America are said to zero in on the tribe order area between Argentina, Brazil, and Baragway, hotspots with significant Lebanese origin populations, and also the epicenter of the PCC's strength. So yeah, none of these weapons are going to find their way into the hands of these groups, right? That's what the legacy media told you. The United States Counterterrorism Bureau has claimed Hezbollah exploits the region as a fundraising base, and it is believed the group collaborates closely with the PCC to launder money, allowing the cartel to acquire weapons according to leaked federal police documents. Evidently, the PCC is an exceptionally well-oiled criminal enterprise with an impressive ability to form and consolidate positive relationships with other nefarious outlets. But those who pose a challenge or take a stand against the cartel receive a very different treatment. As with any infamous drug dynasty, heinous brutality is the norm, and members appear to take great pleasure in carrying out such deplorable actions on fellow human beings. While much of the network operates with freedom, prisons across Brazil and neighboring countries are ruled by the PCC from within, and the gang has established a tactic for taking over new facilities. Incarcerated PCC members steadily recruit more and more members until the group is strong enough to launch a revolt. Once the burgeoning clan reaches a critical mass, it triggers a riot conducting violent attacks on inmates of rival gangs and police officers. Survivors are then left with no option, join the PCC for protection, or face a painful, bloody end. And as a rival group, how do you even argue with that? They just took out all of the prison guards they took out the whole staff, and now you as a local gang, you have to be folded in to the greater PCC. If not, you're gonna get handled. One particularly notorious incident unfolded in a Paraguayan jail in 2019, bringing the PCC's savage operating model into sharp focus. Its members launched a cruel attack on members of a rival clan using the shetties and knives to hack them to pieces. Shocking footage gleefully recorded and shared by alleged PCC members showed gangsters menacingly scraping their blades on the concrete in anticipation of the massacre, and I'm sure they're all hyped up on meth and all kinds of crazy shit. The gang was later seen surrounding one of its victims in the middle of the courtyard while other inmates looked on. They then recorded themselves decapitating a prisoner who was pinned to the floor with a rag covering his mouth in the middle of jail by the way. Okay, we're not talking about in some warehouse somewhere. This is in the middle of the jail they chopped dudes head off. Investigators said six inmates were decapitated, three prisoners were burned, and another was reportedly shot dead. This violence is not reserved for rivals, although the PCC and law enforcement are widely believed to have struck a series of unofficial agreements that allow the cartel to operate largely unchecked provided the violence remains contained. The PCC has a long history of using lethal force against police officers. One of the most egregious examples of such rabid viciousness came in 2006 when efforts to transfer high ranking members of the gang to far off prisons to impede their communication sparked a major uprising. Five days a gang inspired attacks then left at least 175 dead, including police officers, prisoners, and plenty of innocent bystanders with a string of smaller scale attacks continuing on for months. Six years after the 2006 uprising, another war broke out between the gang and Sao Paulo's military police. The PCC felt the government had violated an informal agreement to slow the prison transfers of gang leaders and limit crackdowns on its operations in exchange for a reduction of violence. The gang ordered attacks on law enforcement workers and the ensuing chaos resulted in the deaths of some 106 officers, many of whom were off duty at the time of their executions. So that just shows you how the PCC can reach out and touch you, and for people that think that the whole entire narco game is just based on what's going on in Mexico, those folks need to broaden their horizons, because there's a lot of people involved in this game, and the narco trade is not going anywhere anytime soon. 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