Increased cocaine production and hegemony of
transnational routes have strengthened South American
drug trafficking networks. This expansion has unfolded
into armed violence in Brazil, as Transnational Criminal
Organizations (TCO) compete over hegemony of drug
corridors and distribution not only in metropolitan regions
but, especially, in inner cities. Thus, this study aims to
analyze how the new territories of South American drug
trafficking relate to the nature and spatiality of violence in
Brazil, and to assess what type of direct threat this brings
to national security. We have collected georeferenced
quantitative data in the Uppsala Conflict Data Program
(UCDP), the Homicide Monitor of the Igarapé Institute,
and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
(UNODC). We built our maps and performed our spatial
analysis with the Philcarto software. Finally, we observed
that the capillarization and hegemony of drug trafficking
territories drive the violence in the internal borders and
inland cities in Brazil.
