Comando Vermelho's ramifications all over South America are still unfathomable Indigenous communities in Peru's remote Yurúa district, on the border with Brazil, are raising a serious alarm over the ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras hosted the Fuerzas Comando 2022 exercise opening ceremony at Campo Marte, June 13, 2022. Seventeen countries will compete in a Special Operations Forces skills ...

A day after the deadliest police operation in Brazil's history, the country is still piecing together details about the raids against a powerful drug gang in Rio de Janeiro's favelas. The official ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 31 (Reuters) - The deadliest police operation in Brazil's history left at least 121 people dead this week in Rio de Janeiro. The raids targeted the Comando Vermelho, or Red Command ...

A recent report from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) found a link between Brazil's infamous Comando Vermelho group's gun supply and Paraguay. Arms legally imported to that country end up in ...

Oct. 31 (UPI) --Paraguayan President Santiago Peña has signed a decree designating Brazil's criminal groups Comando Vermelho and Primeiro Comando da Capital, or PCC, as terrorist organizations ...

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 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 ...

Explainer-What Is the Comando Vermelho Gang Targeted in the Deadly Rio Police Raids? By Pedro Fonseca RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -The deadliest police operation in Brazil's history left at least 121 ...