Organizações criminosas brasileiras e mercados ilegais globais: uma análise da rota do tráfico de cocaína entre Brasil e África Ocidental

Abstract

In the last decade, West Africa has seen a growing importance as a transit point for cocaine leaving Brazil and its final destination in Europe and Asia. The route from Brazil is dominated by the First Capital Command (PCC). The organization that was born in the prisons of São Paulo, expanded its operations internationally and today presents itself as a drug cartel. In this context, the general objective of this work is to explore how the expansion of brazilian criminal organizations, especially the PCC, through the cocaine trafficking route towards Europe, impacts West African countries. To this end, the analysis of the work focuses on three dimensions: criminal actors, drug logistics and the crime-State relationship. The methodology used to develop the project is qualitative, through a bibliographical review on Peace Studies (EPP), Violent Non-State Actors (ANEVs) and Criminal Governance, followed by documentary research based on official reports and press news. In this way, based on the information collected, it was possible to identify the links between the Brazilian cocaine market and that of West Africa, based on the expansion of Brazilian criminal organizations, mainly the PCC and its links with European mafias. In this sense, it was also possible to point out the harmful effects that the intensification of cocaine trafficking has been having on the governance system of West African countries.