Martin De Luca says that the decision to designate PCC and CV as “terrorists” does not make the country a target nor does it “authorize military intervention”
Trump Media lawyer, said in Thursday (May 28, 2026) that the United States “they act against factions, not against Brazil” to the the PCC (Primeiro Comando da Capital) and the CV (Comando Vermelho) as terrorist organizations. On social media, he stated that the decision does not make the country a target.
In your the lawyer said that “Sovereignty is the effective capacity of the State to control its territory, protect its population and prevent criminal organizations from replacing public power.”. According to him, the decision did not “automatically authorizes military intervention in Brazilian territory”.
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“The argument that the designation of the PCC and the CV as terrorist organizations by the United States ‘threatens Brazilian sovereignty’ completely reverses the problem.
“The threat to Brazilian sovereignty does not come from the US recognizing reality. The threat to Brazilian sovereignty comes from criminal factions that control territories, impose parallel rules, terrorize civilian populations, corrupt public agents, launder billions, traffic drugs and weapons across borders and project their operations beyond Brazil.
“Sovereignty is the effective capacity of the State to control its territory, protect its population and prevent criminal organizations from replacing public power.
“The argument that PCC and CV could not be treated as terrorist organizations because they ‘do not have a political flag’ is legally narrow and empirically naive. These organizations may not publish ideological manifestos like classic revolutionary groups. But they exercise political power in the most concrete sense possible because they control communities, intimidate authorities, influence elections, paralyze cities, impose curfews, order attacks against public agents and use systematic violence against civilians to preserve territorial and economic dominance.
“The American designation does not make Brazil a target. It targets specific criminal organizations that represent a transnational threat. It also does not automatically authorize military intervention in Brazilian territory. This scarecrow serves more to create political panic than to explain the applicable law. The concrete effect of the designation is to expand tools against financing, logistics, facilitators, money laundering, international movement, material support and support networks. In other words, where these factions are most vulnerable.
“It is also curious to hear abstract concerns about sovereignty when the main victims of the loss of sovereignty are Brazilians who live under criminal rule. For the mother who cannot leave the house because a faction decreed a curfew, for the extorted merchant, for the family affected by territorial war, for the murdered police officer and for the community abandoned to criminal governance, Brazilian sovereignty has long been violated – not by an American designation, but by the armed power of the factions.
“The correct question is why the Brazilian state allowed these organizations to grow to the point of becoming a hemispheric threat. If Brazil had dismantled its financial infrastructure, contained its international expansion, protected its borders, prevented its institutional infiltration and recovered faction-dominated territories, perhaps the US would not have felt the need to act.
“This is not an anti-Brazil measure. It is a measure against the PCC and the CV. The true pro-Brazil act is to recognize that the Brazilian people are the first and biggest victims of these organizations and that international cooperation against them should be welcomed, not treated as a national offense.
“Brazil should respond not with performative indignation, but with cooperation, financial intelligence, extraditions, asset blocking, repression of money laundering and a serious national strategy to recover territories dominated by organized crime.
“Brazilian sovereignty will not be protected by defending the diplomatic sensitivity of criminal factions. It will be protected by destroying their power.”
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