ARGENTINA CLOSES BORDER AND MOBILIZES ARMY TO FIGTH LULA-LINKED FACTIONS
- José Adauto Ribeiro da Cruz
- 30 de out. de 2025
- 4 min de leitura
Breaking News. The Argentine government has closed its border with Brazil and mobilized a large military contingent to combat terrorists from the Red Command (Comando Vermelho) and the PCC (First Capital Command), putting pressure on President Lula, who opposes classifying these factions as terrorist organizations.
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At the same time, Donald Trump has completely ignored Brazil after stating he could mediate possible negotiations between the United States and Venezuela to end counterterrorism operations in South America. Are you on Donald Trump's side? This time, leave your comments below.
On a day marked by dramatic escalations in the fight against drug trafficking, the United States government intensified its regional offensive by sinking another Venezuelan ship in international Caribbean waters on Thursday, October 30, 2025, bringing the total number of vessels destroyed since September to at least 15 and confirmed deaths in actions against alleged narco-terrorists to over 60.
This action comes amid an increasingly tight siege on Brazil, driven by the mega-operation “Containment,” carried out on Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro, which resulted in at least 132 “CPFs canceled” — police jargon for suspects killed in confrontations with the Red Command. The operation, the deadliest in the state's history, mobilized 2,500 agents from the Special Police Operations Battalion (BOPE), Civil and Military Police, along with federal support, including helicopters, 32 armored vehicles, and 12 demolition machines to destroy barricades in the Alemão and Penha complexes. The outcome included 56 arrests, dozens of injuries, and the seizure of weapons, drugs, and vehicles — but also four casualties among security forces, heroes who fell in intense firefights in the forest, where residents reported civilians removing bodies.
The operation, aimed at capturing CV leaders protected by about 70 armed men, shocked the world and triggered cascading reactions across the region. The Argentine government, led by President Javier Milei, declared a state of maximum alert and sent a robust military contingent to the Brazilian border, fearing that traffickers from the CV and PCC might flee the neighboring country and infiltrate Argentine territory to hide or expand operations.
Nearly 15 days earlier, in mid-October, Argentina had approved the presence of U.S. troops on its soil for joint anti-narcotics exercises, such as Operation Trident, involving naval and intelligence forces at bases like Mar del Plata and Ushuaia. Now, that cooperation has taken on a sense of urgency. Argentine Defense Minister Luis Petri announced the deployment of army troops, armored vehicles, military trucks, helicopters, and cyber defense units to reinforce surveillance in regions like Misiones, bordering Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul. “We will exercise all the power the State has at the borders,” declared Petri, emphasizing intelligence, engineering, and air defense tasks against narco-terrorists with military-grade firepower, including armed drones.
Security Minister Patricia Bullrich added that all Brazilians entering Argentina would be thoroughly screened under the “stampede theory” — the dispersion of criminals to neighboring countries when under pressure. This mobilization, which extends to detailed criminal analyses of passengers and vehicles, represents an effective border closure, creating a high-tension zone that includes the strict isolation of 39 Brazilians already imprisoned in Argentina — five from the CV and seven or eight from the PCC — identified by tattoos, initiation rituals, and intelligence shared with international agencies.
Bullrich justified the measure by classifying the PCC and CV as narco-terrorist organizations in the registry of individuals and entities linked to acts of terrorism, highlighting their transnational threats. The PCC, founded in the 1990s in São Paulo as a response to prison abuses, evolved into a multinational crime syndicate, controlling drug trafficking in two-thirds of Brazilian states, with alliances to Colombian and African cartels, laundering billions through global networks, and expanding to European ports such as those in Portugal. Responsible for attacks on authorities and extortion in poor neighborhoods, it generates annual profits in the billions to fund weapons and corruption.
The CV, founded in the 1970s in Rio as a form of self-protection against the military regime, dominates favelas like Alemão and Penha with brutal violence, public executions, armed confrontations, and martial law, expanding into Paraguay, Bolivia, and Colombia with smuggled weapons — including from the Venezuelan army. Both factions destroy innocent families with thousands of drug-related deaths each year and use social media to promote a false image of protection while spreading terror in impoverished communities.
Meanwhile, the United States, under President Donald Trump, is applying unprecedented pressure on Brazil, rejecting President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as a mediator in tensions with Venezuela. Nearly two months ago, Brasília rejected a proposal from Washington to classify the PCC and CV as terrorist organizations, opting instead for coordination over military escalation. Lula had proposed mediating a truce during a meeting with Trump in Malaysia, but allies of Secretary of State Marco Rubio vetoed the idea, viewing Brazil as sympathetic to Nicolás Maduro’s regime.
This refusal has deepened Brazil’s isolation, especially after Lula’s controversial statements earlier this week, on October 24, during a press conference in Jakarta, Indonesia. “Users are responsible for traffickers, who are also victims of the users,” said the president, arguing a supply-and-demand dynamic that, according to critics, ignores the need to cut off supply to break the cycle. The statement — which Lula retracted the next day as poorly worded, reaffirming his clear stance against organized crime — outraged the Brazilian public, who see the factions as controlling over a thousand favelas and urban peripheries.
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