Relations of Reciprocity and Moral Debts Between the Prison and the Street: The Expansion and Transnationalization of the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) in the Brazil-Bolivia Border
Keywords:
border, drug trafficking, transnationalization, Primeiro Comando da Capital, CorumbáAbstract
The article tries to understand the Primeiro Comando da Capital (First Capital Command, PCC) expansion and transnationalization in the border between Brazil and Bolivia, considering Corumbá, in Brazil, and Puerto Suarez, in Bolivia its basis of analysis. To do so, ethnography was the methodology chosen as it granted the understanding about the social actors involved. Changes, which were caused by the PCC entry in the prisons from this region, have been impacting the local dynamics for drug sales based on personal and neighborhood relationships and, because of that, these changes have created a PCC loyalty rule and reconfigured the drug trafficking beyond the border.
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