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prison alongside common criminals. One such prison, Candido Mendes, located on Ilha Grande, housed a mix of violent criminals and guerrillas in its notoriously brutal "Block B", or "The Pit". Inmates there were subject to frequent abuse at the hands of both their peers and the guards. The inmates banded together for mutual protection, shielding themselves from guard beatings and establishing a code of conduct for prisoners. Additionally, the guerrillas began to spread ideas about resistance, revolution, and social justice among the common criminals. As the alliance cemented, members introduced a common code of prison rules, designed to promote loyalty among members, reduce violence within the prison, and advance the common cause of the prisoners, while still maintaining a degree of autonomy for individual members to act as they desired.
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grassroots movement demanding amnesty for thousands of political prisoners and exiles to insulate himself and his colleagues from potential indictments," and passed the sweeping 1979 Amnesty Law, protecting political prisoners and their government captors from prosecution. As a result, the leftist guerrilla elements of the CV were released from prison, weakening the group's ideological bent.
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much of the world for that matter," have Rio cartels, and primarily the CV, "systematically engaged the state in armed confrontation for so long." Currently, the CV continues to violently fight with state forces, and the ACLED reports that state violence represents a disproportionate share of reported fatalities in Rio de
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overwhelming military force, followed by the installation of a proximity-policing unit (Unidade de
Policia Pacificadora, UPP), which remains in the favela after military withdrawal. Rather than eliminating the drug trade, the UPPs were primarily tasked with securing the favela communities from gang-related violence.
751:"The Professor" (deceased): Lima was a founding member of the Comando Vermelho, having been imprisoned at Cândido Mendes during the 1970s after attempting to escape another prison. He took part in several bank robberies and was a major figure during the CV's initial rise to power. He later wrote a memoir,
1855:"Brazil: the Red Command (Comando Vermelho, CV) criminal organization, including activities, areas of operation, membership, structure, networks, political connections, and resources; state protection available for victims of crimes committed by the Red Command (2017-March 2019) [BRA106243.E]"
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Armed militia groups in Rio represent another growing challenge for the CV. Militia groups, formed by former and current police officers purporting to fight crime, have grown to control substantial territory throughout Rio. In recent years, violence between militias and gangs has intensified; in 2020
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Meanwhile, the CV began to spread beyond prison gates. While many of its original members were bank robbers, the group quickly became involved in the burgeoning cocaine market. CV members helped traffic drugs overseas for
Colombian cartels and distributed cocaine into the local Rio de Janeiro market.
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In attempts to break up the alliance, prison officials moved inmate leaders to different wings and prisons, but this instead helped the group spread throughout the prison system. During this period prison officials gave the group its name: one official called the group "Comando
Vermelho" in a memo to
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Today, while not as powerful as at its peak, the CV remains a significant presence in Rio and throughout Brazil; recent estimates suggest the group is the second-largest criminal organization in Brazil behind the PCC. InSight Crime reports the CV may boast as many as 30,000 members throughout Brazil.
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A defining characteristic of the CV is their willingness to openly engage the state in armed confrontation. Since the mid-1980s, as state forces steadily increased the severity of their crackdowns, the CV has responded with frequent violent clashes. Lessing writes that "nowhere else in Brazil, or in
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Comando Vermelho was founded remains disputed, but sources agree the gang formed out of a prison alliance between leftist guerrillas and common criminals housed together during the 1970s by Brazil's military dictatorship at Cândido Mendes, a maximum security Brazilian prison.
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Despite its initial success for the state, corruption and over-expansion caused erosion of the
Pacification system, and by 2013 the program began to break down. Since then, violent clashes between the CV and state forces have surged. In 2016, following the collapse of a 20-year truce between the CV
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Soon after their regime began in 1964, Brazil's military dictatorship faced a persistent challenge from leftist guerrilla rebels, made up largely of "middle-class intellectuals". In hopes of delegitimizing the rebels, in the early 1970s the
Brazilian government began placing those they captured in
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During this period, the CV became increasingly involved in the provision of social services and administration of justice for the favela communities which it controlled. In exchange for the cooperation of favela residents, the CV prohibited theft, robbery, and rape, and provided public goods like
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In 1979, sensing an impending democratization movement, newly-installed
President Joao Figueiredo and his military regime began to fear that they and members of their armed forces could face trial for human rights violations in a democratic system. To protect themselves, Figueiredo "manipulated a
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Within this structure, there is significant freedom for gang members to run operations as they see fit. According to
Penglase, the "CV is most accurately described as a loose association of drug traffickers who come together for reciprocal assistance yet who act with great degrees of autonomy."
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Beginning in 2008, in an effort to combat the widespread gang-related violence, Rio state police forces implemented a new "Pacification" strategy, "inspired by notions of community-oriented policing." The strategy, which proceeds in stages, begins with state occupation of a target favela using
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is based in a Rio favela and is inspired by true events surrounding the emergence of organized crime groups like the CV. The DVD release of the film contains an extra documentary "News of a Private War" which features interviews with the police and local children from the favelas. In the 2010
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One suggested explanation for the CV's violent conflict with the state is the varying levels of conditionality in state crackdowns––whether the state cracks down harder on violent cartel behavior. In 2008, after the highly-conditional Pacification policy was implemented, cartel-state violence
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Massive profits created incentives for different CV factions to splinter off as local leaders sought larger profit shares. Notable break-away groups which emerged during this period include Terceiro Comando and Amigos dos Amigos. As these groups clashed over territory in Rio, violence rapidly
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The cocaine trade brought the CV massive profits and growth; by the end of 1985 the gang controlled as much as 70% of the drug trade in Rio de Janeiro's favelas. During this period, the CV established trading relationships with Colombian cartels. However, the group's decentralized leadership
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Inside prisons with a strong CV presence, senior leaders practice internal criminal governance. These leaders "rule prison life, settle internal faction disputes that occur outside of prison and make the final decision on any matters of mutual interest for faction affiliates."
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and 2021, "clashes between gangs and militias were responsible for 28% of reported fatalities" in Rio. For example, in July and August 2022, the CV clashed frequently with the Campinho police militia for "control of the Morro do Fuba community in the North Zone."
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The gang continues to engage in drug trafficking, arms trafficking, and turf wars with rival gangs. Notably, in recent years a struggle has intensified between the CV, the PCC, and other rival gangs over control of trade routes and territory in the Amazon region.
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On 19 November 2016, a Rio de Janeiro police helicopter was shot down by small arms fire during a clash with CV gang members and crashed in a ditch. All four police officers on board were killed. In June 2018, the CV launched attacks on a Bolivian Army base in
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The official end of the military dictatorship in 1985 marked the end of all remaining ties between the leftist guerrillas and the CV. Many of the guerrillas re-entered society and "rose inside political parties;" some would go on to hold elected office.
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to emerge. Conflicts with these splinter groups, as well as fierce resistance to state crackdowns on their operations, drove a sharp uptick in violence in Rio and throughout Brazil throughout the late 1980s and into the 2000s.
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The cocaine trade proved incredibly lucrative and the CV grew rapidly: "by the end of 1985, the gang already controlled 70% of the drug market in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro."
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and the PCC, violence surged further. In 2023, sources consistently reported frequent violent clashes between the CV and the PCC as well as other rival gang groups.
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Fernandinho Beira-Mar or Seaside Freddy) the CV procured arms and ammunition, which they delivered to the FARC in exchange for their supply of cocaine.
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of Rio de Janeiro, and became involved in the rapidly growing cocaine industry. Meanwhile, Brazil's shift towards democracy and the eventual end of the
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included an episode titled "Rio De Janeiro", which investigated the Comando Vermelho and their police adversaries. The 2002 crime drama film
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was inspired by CV founder William da Silva Lima's memoirs and narrates a fictionalized history of the birth of the gang in the late 1970s.
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Behague, Gerard (Spring-Summer 2006). "Rap, Reggae, Rock, or Samba: The Local and the Global in Brazilian Popular Music, 1985-1995."
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in retaliation for the murder of Orlando Jogador, one of the original leaders of the CV (which would have been ordered by UÉ).
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in 1985 allowed the leftist guerrillas to re-enter society; thus, the CV largely abandoned its left-wing ideology.
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1125:"The Bastard Child of the Dictatorship:: The Comando Vermelho and the Birth of "Narco-culture" in Rio de Janeiro"
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documentary "Dancing with the Devil", director John Blair investigates criminal organizations in Rio's favelas.
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1189:"Primeiro Comando da Capital and Comando Vermelho: Genesis, Evolution and Their Impact through Narco-culture"
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Márcio dos Santos Nepomuceno, a.k.a. "Marcinho VP" (incarcerated): Considered the most powerful drug lord in
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Roni Peixoto, a.k.a. "Gordo" ('Fat Man'; deceased): He was known by the nickname Gordo because he was
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Neither War Nor Peace: International Comparisons of Children and Youth in Organised Armed Violence
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structure and disputes over profits prompted infighting, causing splinter groups such as the
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his colleagues. The name was adopted first by the press and then later by the group itself.
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Cláudio Augusto da Silva Duarte, a.k.a. "Mano C" (incarcerated): CV leader in the state of
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stronghold firmly in the hand of the state for the first time in more than a generation."
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1935:"Morre William 'Professor', um dos fundadores da maior facção criminosa do Rio"
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Franciotti, Bhavani Castro, Julia Lins (14 February 2023).
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1447:"Brazil: Five Centuries of Change"
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918:Militias-Comando Vermelho conflict
687:and a Brazilian police station in
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1835:from the original on 24 June 2021
1823:Grillo, Ioan (26 February 2016).
1804:from the original on 20 June 2018
1521:American Political Science Review
1391:from the original on 4 April 2023
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1206:10.12797/AdAmericam.23.2022.23.01
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695:Comando Vermelho and funk carioca
3245:Organized crime groups in Brazil
2845:Organized crime groups in Canada
2651:(1). National Defense University
2514:from the original on 15 May 2023
1621:from the original on 5 July 2023
1334:from the original on 2 July 2022
1308:Blair, Laurence (23 June 2022).
1061:Grillo, Ioan (12 January 2017).
908:List of criminal gangs in Brazil
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780:Elias Pereira da Silva, a.k.a.
564:increased throughout the city.
495:Unidade de Policia Pacificadora
16:Brazilian criminal organization
3076:Independent Cartel of Acapulco
1903:Benoit, Hector (18 May 2006).
1346:
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873:The 2010 Brazilian crime film
583:Pacification (2008–2013)
1:
3240:1979 establishments in Brazil
3081:Jalisco New Generation Cartel
1187:Jański, Kamil (7 June 2022).
977:Uppsala Conflict Data Program
928:
1123:Penglase, B. (1 June 2008).
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283:Márcio dos Santos Nepomuceno
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2814:Primeiro Comando da Capital
2664:Dalby, Chris (7 May 2021).
2182:(in Brazilian Portuguese).
2152:(in Brazilian Portuguese).
1972:(in Brazilian Portuguese).
1941:(in Brazilian Portuguese).
1884:Latin American Music Review
1617:(in Brazilian Portuguese).
913:Primeiro Comando da Capital
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798:made it look like a suicide
742:Notable leaders and members
502:Primeiro Comando da Capital
459:Primeiro Comando da Capital
354:Primeiro Comando da Capital
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1641:"Comandos de la Frontera"
1533:10.1017/S0003055419000856
945:. Istoé. 6 January 2017.
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2563:"Dancing with the Devil"
1909:World Socialist Web Site
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753:Four Hundred Against One
659:Conflict with government
2941:Muerte a Secuestradores
2090:Iconografia da História
1722:. 7Letras. p. 32.
1643:. Insight Crime. 2014.
747:William da Silva Lima,
423:protection racketeering
98:Candido Mendes Prison,
3098:Knights Templar Cartel
2953:Norte del Valle Cartel
2717:groups in the Americas
1716:Dowdney, Luke (2005).
1451:The SHAFR Guide Online
280:Luiz Fernando da Costa
95:Founding location
3044:La Familia Michoacana
2824:Terceiro Comando Puro
1129:Luso-Brazilian Review
475:military dictatorship
463:Terceiro Comando Puro
413:engaged primarily in
411:criminal organization
362:Terceiro Comando Puro
66:Criminal organization
3155:South Pacific Cartel
2617:General bibliography
2146:"Gabinete na prisão"
1752:. 20 November 2016.
1420:. 16 November 2022.
1320:Pedro Juan Caballero
3255:Terrorism in Brazil
2963:Oficina de Envigado
2809:Guardiões do Estado
2390:Correio Braziliense
1581:. 26 January 2021.
1261:Lessing, Benjamin.
984:on 24 December 2013
378:Guardiões do Estado
117:Early 1970s–present
71:
3219:Mafia bibliography
3201:Cartel of the Suns
3049:Guadalajara Cartel
2958:North Coast Cartel
2176:"O poder do crime"
1579:Americas Quarterly
1141:10.1353/lbr.0.0001
860:Ross Kemp on Gangs
849:In popular culture
841:in northern Brazil
69:
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3128:Artistas Asesinos
2936:The Extraditables
2860:No Limit Soldiers
2784:Amigos dos Amigos
2766:Santa Cruz Cartel
2420:G1 (Minas Gerais)
1387:. 27 March 2017.
1274:978-1-108-18583-7
1074:978-1-4088-4591-2
775:Amigos dos Amigos
759:at the age of 76.
757:South Zone of Rio
606:tri-border region
487:Amigos dos Amigos
447:irregular warfare
409:, is a Brazilian
405:), also known as
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114:Years active
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