Formed in the 1990s, Comando Sombra are a vicious drug gang linked to the kidnapping of Fabiana Branco.The original members were a splinter group of a prison gang, and to date the Comando Sombra ...

1 / 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Cadets from the Honduras military carry the Fuerzas Comando 2022 trophy off the field during the opening on June 13, 2022, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Honduras ...

This event initiated the 13th annual Fuerzas Comando competition in Mariano Roque Alonso, Paraguay, July 17, 2017. The 11-day competition features 20 countries challenging one another in 15 events ...

The Pure Third Command (Terceiro Comando Puro) is one of the most powerful criminal groups in Brazil’s second-largest city, Rio de Janeiro. Its origins can be traced back to a split within the ...

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 ...

The criminal group is believed to control drug sales and prostitution in Boa Vista, operate on the Venezuelan border to facilitate illegal trafficking, and maintain business ties with Brazil’s two ...

Marcos A. (2018), ‘Brazilian criminal organizations as transnational violent non-state actors: a case study of the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC)’. Trends in Organized Crime. November 2018. Lessing ...