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 ...

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 ...

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 ...