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Brazilian militias
Foundation
early 1980s
Country
Brazil
Motives
Fill the power vacuum left by the destruction of drug gangs in favelas, becoming the new force that rules these regions while partaking in the same activities the gangs used to.
Status
Active
Means of revenue
Robbery, Protection rackets, Usury, Extortion, Kidnappings, Human Trafficking, Pimping and Arms trafficking
Opponents
Comando Vermelho, Amigos dos Amigos, Terceiro Comando Puro, Military Police, Civil Police
Battles and wars
Militias–Comando Vermelho conflict
Brazilian militias (Portuguese: Milícias), mainly in Rio de Janeiro, and some other cities of Brazil, are illegal mafia-like paramilitary groups made up of current and former police (Civil or Military) officers as well as Military Firefighters Corps officers, criminals, politicians, and military officers, operating also as a regular mafia by trade extortion and political influence.[1]
Militias carry out both vigilante and organized crime activities. In the favelas, drug gangs like ADA and Red Command control trafficking and violence networks, openly selling drugs and carrying weapons as well as acting as the de facto authorities, building infrastructure and enforcing their own brand of law and order. These police-backed militias historically force out the drug traffickers in order to set up their own protection rackets, extorting residents and taxing basic services.[2][3][4][5]
^"Against the current: Brazil's dangerous militias | DW | 04.09.2019". Deutsche Welle.
^"Death of a Rio Cartel". The Intercept. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
^"'Like a cancer:' Rio militias grow, control swaths of city | CTV News". www.ctvnews.ca. 24 December 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
^Phillips, Dom. "How Brazil's militias wield terror to seize power from drug gangs". The Irish Times. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
^"Brazil's fearsome militias: mafia boom increases threat to democracy | The Guardian News". www.theguardian.com. 18 October 2022. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
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