Red Command (Comando Vermelho)
Brazil · Latin America + Caribbean region
Single-source report, not yet corroborated. <p><a href="https://insightcrime.org/brazil-organized-crime-news/red-command-profile/">Red Command (Comando Vermelho)</a></p>
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<p>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. But in the 1980s, the group moved into the cocaine trade, working with Colombian drug cartels and taking on a social leadership role in many of Rio’s marginalized neighborhoods.</p>
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