"Primeiro Comando da Capital and Comando Vermelho are two of the most violent criminal organizations in Brazil. Their reach extends throughout our region and into our country.

Today, I designated these organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists.

The Trump Administration will continue using every available tool to protect our national security interests and deny funding and resources to narco-terrorists."

“On a trip as a pre-candidate, we did more for Brazil and for the security of Brazilians than the PT and Lula did in their seventeen years in office. While Lula went on his knees after Trump, doing favors for the CV and PCC, I went to work so that they would be treated as terrorists, which is what they are. One in every four Brazilians lives in areas dominated by these narco-terrorists, meaning they have no sovereignty even inside their own homes.

A government that has no control over its own territory, that cannot even control its prisons, is a government that is complicit with organized crime. I thank President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for responding quickly to my request on behalf of the Brazilian people. Now it is up to us, here in Brazil. And starting in 2027, we will free you, because you deserve to be free from this parallel, violent, and cowardly government.”