US government labels Brazil’s 2 biggest drug gangs as foreign terrorist organizations (opens in new tab)

SAO PAULO (AP) — The U.S. State Department announced on Thursday that it will designate Brazil’s two biggest criminal groups as foreign terrorist organizations early next month, a move the South American nation’s government has said it will interpret as undue interference in its politics. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement that the First Command of the Capital, or PCC, and the Red Command, or CV, will be considered foreign t…