Comando Vermelho (Portuguese: [koˈmɐ̃du veʁˈmeʎu], Red Command or Red Commando), also known as CV, is a Brazilian criminal organization engaged primarily in drug trafficking, arms trafficking, protection racketeering, kidnapping-for-ransom, hijacking of armored trucks, loansharking, irregular warfare, narco-terrorism, and turf wars ...

Nov 19, 2024 · The Red Command (Comando Vermelho – CV) is Brazil’s oldest criminal group. Created in a Rio de Janeiro prison in the 1970s as a self-protection group for prisoners, it started out with low-level crimes like muggings and bank robberies.

Sep 29, 2014 · many of Rio’s favelas. The Red Command was born out of an alliance between common criminals and leftist militants, when the two groups were thrown together in prisons under the military dictatorship of 1964 to 1985.

Comando Vermelho (Red Command) or the C.V. is Brazil's oldest criminal organization, which engages in drug trafficking, protection racketeering, and turf wars with rival drug gangs and militias in Greater Rio de Janeiro, among other criminal activities.

Feb 19, 2019 · 7 Comando Vermelho (CV) is a Brazilian criminal group created in 1969, during the military regime in Brazil (1964¬85). The CV is the result of an alliance between leftist militants and common criminals.

The 2017 Brazil prison riots were a confrontation between two criminal organizations, the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) and Comando Vermelho (CV), and their allies within prisons and peripheries of Brazilian cities.

Jan 26, 2021 · Origins: Red Command, or CV, which they paint on walls to demarcate their territory, was founded in 1979 in a prison on Ilha Grande, Rio de Janeiro, where common criminals and political prisoners shared cells, knowledge and expertise. The group’s full name pays homage to a drug trafficker who founded the Red Phalanx, CV’s predecessor, which ...

Sep 11, 2024 · While fighting intensified in 2022, the Red Command (Comando Vermelho – CV), a notorious gang with roots in Rio’s prison system, has recently increased its efforts to reclaim territory from the militias, a powerful network of paramilitary-style organizations that has held sway over many of the city’s poorest neighborhoods for at least a ...

Feb 11, 2025 · Comando Vermelho (CV), або «Червона команда», – одна з найстаріших і найвпливовіших злочинних організацій Бразилії, що виникла в 1970-х роках у пенітенціарній системі Ріо-де-Жанейро.

Feb 23, 2021 · Brazil: the Red Command Criminal Organization (Comando Vermelho, CV) including its activities and areas of operation, membership and structure, power, networks, political connections and ; state protection available for …