Colombia’s June 21 runoff is being shadowed by FARC car bombs, while Paraguay has quietly built the hemisphere’s most aggressive anti-PCC military architecture as Brazil records its lowest homicide rate in a decade in 2025 even as overall crime rises
Brazil records lowest homicide rate in over a decade — but extortion, cybercrime, police killings, and disappearances all rose in the same period, while PCC and CV cells expanded across 12 U.S. states
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