A high-level meeting between US President Donald Trump and Brazilian President Lula da Silva is being scheduled for the coming weeks. The cooperative relationship between the two American countries includes as one of its agenda items the treatment that should be given to the criminal groups called Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) and Comando Vermelho (CV). While the Trump administration has advanced a project to officially classify the two groups as terrorist organizations, Lula's government argues that these organizations only seek profit through drug and arms trafficking, and have no ideological, political, or religious motivation.

This stance by the Brazilian government could pave the way for aggressive US actions in the region which are apparently linked to the capture of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. The arrest of Hugo Carvajal ("El Pollo"), former head of Venezuelan intelligence, wanted by the US for drug trafficking, he revealed the existence of a scheme to finance political organizations and media outlets in Brazil and Europe, including the Iberian Peninsula where the rejection of the Jew and the Jewish state is now undeniable.

Hezbollah and the "Free Palestine" Propaganda

The First Command of the Capital (PCC) and the Red Command (CV) have documented links with Lebanon and use the country as a destination or transit point for drug exports. Intelligence reports from the FBI, as well as old investigations by the Brazilian Federal Police and the Portuguese police in cases then directed by director Gil Rodrigues de Carvalho, prove that both the PCC and the CV maintain strategic ties with Hezbollah, facilitating the logistics of cocaine exports to Europe and the Middle East through networks already established by the Lebanese organization.

While Comando Vermelho has expanded its international operations, using routes through the Amazon to send narcotics abroad, the PCC uses Lebanese intermediaries based in Brazil, especially in the Triple Frontier region (Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina), and controls the main cocaine routes from Bolivia and Paraguay to Brazilian ports, such as Santos, from where the drug goes to Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

The drug is frequently processed in Lebanon and redistributed to other countries. The Hezbollah headquarters is identified as a destination for high-purity cocaine from Latin America, often transported on direct flights from São Paulo to Beirut.

The Guinean signal and the Muslim Brotherhood

Guinea-Bissau has been described by the UN as a strategic transit point for cocaine from South America destined for Europe, with high-ranking military and political figures involved. It serves as a transshipment and storage platform for cocaine leaving Brazil destined for Europe and is considered a strategic point and key logistics hub for international cocaine trafficking operated by cartels in Latin America. When, in September 2024, Guinean authorities carried out the largest seizure in the country's history — 2.63 tons of cocaine on a private jet at Osvaldo Vieira Airport — among the five detainees in that international operation were citizens of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico, reinforcing the direct link with South American trafficking networks. Furthermore, the PCC has extended its presence to other African nations, such as Angola and Mozambique, where it uses local structures to move drugs that reach the Gulf of Benin and surrounding areas.

Reports suggest that drug money finances political elites with international ramifications, mainly on European soil. Hugo Carvajal's testimony proved that this drug trafficking financed leftist parties and terrorist groups in the Sahel and the Middle East. The recent acquisition of Guinea's main bank by a financial group from the Islamic Republic of Mauritania has further deepened the mysterious scenario in which the interests of the Muslim Brotherhood also appear to be involved.

The "Americas Counter-Cartel Coalition"

In 2026 the US can expose Brazil to sanctions and military operations to combat terrorism, as Trump's administration formally launched a new initiative – the "Americas Counter-Cartel Coalition" – aiming to use "hard power" to dismantle criminal organizations in the Western Hemisphere.