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Weekly Report - 27 July 2017 (WR-17-29)

PARAGUAY: PCC continues to make presence felt

The deadly shooting of four people in a night club in the city of Pedro Juan Caballero (PJC), the capital of Paraguay’s north-eastern Amambay department, has been attributed to members of Brazil’s Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC). The incident is seen as the latest evidence that Brazil’s largest criminal organisation has firmly installed itself in Paraguay’s northern border areas and is now looking to assume control of drug-trafficking across the border into Brazil.

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