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The Comando vermelho (GER. "red command") a criminal organisation is mainly in the trade in illegal, Drugs in the Brazilian city Rio de Janeiro is active. The Brazilian police according to which is estimated Comando vermelho (CV) formed in Rio by about 5000 criminal equipped with weapons of war. It controlled about 40% of the local market for illegal drugs.
The Comando vermelho was established in the late 1970s in Brazilian prisons, notably in prison Ilha Grande (State of Rio de Janeiro), where political prisoners the Military dictatorship in Brazil and common criminals under problematic conditions had to live together. The political prisoners in this situation trying to spread political thought and the idea of active solidarity between their escapes. The Organization as originally fulfilled the function of a resistance group and the Schutzgemeinschaft of prisoners against abuses by guards and prisoners. Referenced by this partly ideologically distinct beginning today is still being used motto of command "Paz, Justiça e Liberdade" ("peace, justice and freedom"), approximately by the graffiti remembered territorial markers in drug sales centres in Rio de Janeiro is disseminated.
Achieved the greatest visibility Comando vermelho in the slums Rio de Janeiro, where there was a territorial Rule striving for and these defended by force of arms against the police and other drug gangs. The inhabitants of the poor ever again get caught in the crossfire, must ultimately drug dealers as the authority in their district recognise and arrange themselves with these. The resulting in many cases Cooperation between residents and drug traffickers in slums of Brazilian cities is promoted also by the fact, that the latter is a kind of Monopoly enforce the more partially effective protection against Crime and some forms of violence than by the Brazilian State guarantees, and in some cases some otherwise non-existent social and charitable functions take over. This development is reaching up through the up in the highest ranks Corruption within the Brazilian police and their brutal and illegal action in the poor districts once again reinforced. On the other hand, in some slums, it is Rio de Janeiro even to the Foundation come from groups ("within"), which fight drug trafficking by force of arms (see below).
The illegal appears many young people from poor families Drug trafficking as an attractive net income, which not only a comparatively high income but them also ensures an increase in self-esteem and of Sozialprestiges. Given the miserable living conditions of a large number of children and young people in Brazil, that without economic prospects grow up, this attractiveness by low life expectancy of a would in the ranks is also of Comando vermelho or a comparable organization diminished: the majority of those involved in the drug trade in Rio takes to die in clashes with rivals or police before she reaches the age of 25. Young members of CV call "soldados do morro" (ghetto soldiers) and publicly as insignia of their power to bear their Schnellfeuergewehre.
The CV is in rivalry with other drug gangs such as the Terceiro Comando (TC) and the Amigos dos Amigos (ADA). The favela Complexo Mare, for example, is in the North of the Comando vermelho and ruled in the South by the Terceiro Comando, wearing false colors (such as red for Comando vermelho) can entail there torture and murder.
Fernandinho Beira-Mar and Elias Maluco
Notorious leaders of CV Fernandinho Beira-Mar and Elias Maluco. Fernandinho Beira-Mar alias was Luiz Fernando da Costa in Duque de Caxias/ Born in Baixada Fluminense. His mother was killed in a car accident in 1992. Beira-Mar began to trade with stolen weapons of the army at an early age and was sentenced to a prison term. On his release at the age of 20, he came to the top of the Comando vermelho in his favela Beira-Mar. In the years 1990-95 opened in the favela Borel, Beira-Mar Rocinha, Chapeu Mangueira and Vidigal new distribution channels for cocaine from Colombia. Much of the cocaine and the weapons were deleted by ship in the port of Rio de Janeiro. in 1996, Beira-Mar was arrested again and was sitting in a prison in Belo Horizonte a. in 1997, he managed to escape and lived in Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia. Beira-Mar was relations with the Colombian FARC and also to cocaine transportation by land in large-scale led to Brazil by. in 2001, he was arrested in a concerted action of the Colombian army and the US Food and Drug Administration DEA and shipped to Brazil. Beira-Mar currently sits in the high-security prison Rio de Janeiro Bangu I, and controls drug trafficking from his mobile phone.
Elias Maluco, whose real name is Elias Pereira da Silva was the right hand of Beira-Mar and controlled the drug trade in the favelas of Ramos (Complexo do Alemão) and Penha (Vila Cruzeiro, one of the most dangerous areas of Brazil). He was considered one of the cruelest and most unscrupulous leaders of Comando vermelho. So should the Elias Maluco GloboFunk parties, prostitution and the sexual abuse of minors in the favelas of Complexo do Alemão by a killer squad kidnapped reporter Tim Lopez 2002 during his research work on Baile and beheaded by Elias Maluco by hand with the Samurai sword to seeing this disturbed the drug deals by Investigativjournalismus. Elias Maluco was in his favela da Grota tracked down and brought to right of the prison of Bangu I.
Territories of Comando vermelho in Rio de Janeiro
Complexo do Alemão, Mangueira, Jacarézinho, Complexo da Mare, Vidigal, Pavao Pavãozinho,. Cidade de Deus, Vigário Geral, Salgueiro, Nova Holanda, Parque União
Opposing political groups
Terceiro Comando (TC): Faction of CV. arose in the 1990s and is active in North West Rio (Baixada Fluminense) and in the periphery. During the prison riots in 2002 in the Bangu I penitentiary leader Ü was murdered. The Terceiro Comando and Amigos dos Amigos provided brutal gang wars with the CV in the favela Rocinha. A further splinter group broke away from the TC the Terceiro Comando Puro (TCP) among the leaders of Robinho, Pinga, and Facão. The TC dominated following favelas: Acari, Dende, Baixa do Madagaskar, Timbau, Roquete Pinto and partial Complexo da Mare.
Amigos dos Amigos: in the Northwest of Rios, a further group was formed: the Amigos dos Amigos (ADA) among the leaders of Celsinho da Vintém, Sassa and Linho. The ADA dominate some streets in the Rocinha and the Complexo da Mare, as well as in the favela Morro dos Macacos, Vila dos Pinheiros, Vila do João, conjunto Esperança and salsa e merengue.
News
According to the Brazilian newspaper A Folha de Sao Paulo by 29 December 2006 was a series of attack against police stations in Rio de Janeiro and committed other civilian facilities, which fell about 18 people to the victims. A massive police presence was preceded the stop series just before the holidays of simplified, where 10 favelas were occupied by the military police. In the favela Vila Cruzeiro and even in a famous shopping mall there were numerous gunfights. These actions were probably controlled by Comando Vermelho, where jailed leaders feared stricter detention arrangements in the new year.
In the slums of Rio de Janeiro drug trafficking-controlled, it comes increasingly to attacks from so-called "within", which attack the members of drug gangs and distribute. Several dozen favelas should already be dominated by these militias. It is believed that the militias of police officers be controlled or even made in civilian clothes. According to reports, they require a kind security tax by the inhabitants of the areas controlled by them. Cases of attacks against non-payment ready inhabitants have become known.
