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Armed Conflict For Control Of The Favelas
The armed conflict for control of the favelas in Greater Rio de Janeiro or simply Civil conflict for control of the favelas is an ongoing conflict between Brazilian militias, organized criminal groups Comando Vermelho, Amigos dos Amigos, Terceiro Comando Puro and the Brazilian state. According to law student Carlos Gilberto Martins Junior, Brazil, with emphasis on the State of Rio de Janeiro, there has been an arbitrary use of these powers and attributions, conferred on police institutions, to satisfy the patrimonial aspirations of some of its agents, through territorial domination and violence, to the detriment of the peripheral communities and under the pretext of saving them from the "greater evil" represented by drug trafficking, corroborating the emergence of criminal organizations which are conventionally called the "militia". Background Organized crime is intrinsically intertwined with Greater Rio de Janeiro's history, growing with the development of the cities zones ...
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Batalhão De Operações Policiais Especiais
Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais (BOPE) (; literally "Battalion of Special Police Operations") is the tactical police unit and gendarmerie of the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State (''PMERJ'') in Brazil. Duties The BOPE currently perform a number of roles, including: * Providing additional security at special events; * Break barricades constructed by drug traffickers; * Shoot to kill at any criminal threatening either civilian or member life; * Exterminate drug trafficking criminal factions and all of its members; * Extract police officers or civilians injured in confrontations and combat; * Rescuing officers and citizens captured by criminals or endangered by gunfire; * Serve high-risk arrest warrants; * Hostage rescue; * Stabilising situations involving high-risk suicidal subjects; * Suppress prison riots; * Support civil police in combat of any kind; * Providing superior assault firepower in certain situations; * Armed patrols around the favelas; ...
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Military Police Of Rio De Janeiro State
The Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State () (PMERJ) like other military polices in Brazil is a reserve and ancillary force of the Brazilian Army, and part of the System of Public Security and Brazilian Social Protection. Its members are called "state military" personnel. The primary mission of PMERJ is ostensively preventive policing for the maintenance of public order in the State of Rio de Janeiro. History The first militarized police in Portugal (when Brazil was still a colony) was the '' Royal Police Guard of Lisbon'' (), established in 1801, which followed the model of the National Gendarmerie () of France, created in 1791. When the Portuguese Royal Family was transferred to Brazil, the Royal Police Guard of Lisbon remained in Portugal, and another equivalent guard was created in Rio de Janeiro under the name of ''Military Division of the Royal Police Guard of Rio de Janeiro'', in 1809. With the abdication of Emperor Pedro I in 1831, the Regency restructured the ...
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1 Rocinha Night 2014 Panorama
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sports, where it commonly denotes the first, leading, or top thing in a group. 1 is the unit of counting or measurement, a determiner for singular nouns, and a gender-neutral pronoun. Historically, the representation of 1 evolved from ancient Sumerian and Babylonian symbols to the modern Arabic numeral. In mathematics, 1 is the multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number. In digital technology, 1 represents the "on" state in binary code, the foundation of computing. Philosophically, 1 symbolizes the ultimate reality or source of existence in various traditions. In mathematics The number 1 is the first natural number after 0. Each natural number, ...
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Organized Crime
Organized crime is a category of transnational organized crime, transnational, national, or local group of centralized enterprises run to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for profit. While organized crime is generally thought of as a form of illegal business, some criminal organizations, such as terrorist organizations, terrorist groups, rebel groups, and Separatism, separatists, are politically motivated. Many criminal organizations rely on fear or terror to achieve their goals or aims as well as to maintain control within the organization and may adopt tactics commonly used by authoritarianism, authoritarian regimes to maintain power. Some forms of organized crime simply exist to cater towards demand of illegal goods in a state or to facilitate trade of goods and services that may have been banned by a state (such as illegal drugs or firearms). Sometimes, criminal organizations force people to do business with them, such as when a gang extorts protection racket, protec ...
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Militia
A militia ( ) is a military or paramilitary force that comprises civilian members, as opposed to a professional standing army of regular, full-time military personnel. Militias may be raised in times of need to support regular troops or serve as a pool of available manpower for regular forces to draw from. When acting independently, militias are generally unable to hold ground against regular forces. Militias commonly support regular troops by skirmishing, holding fortifications, or conducting irregular warfare, instead of undertaking offensive campaigns by themselves. However, militias may also engage in defense activities to protect a community, its territory, property, and laws. For example, naval militias may comprise fishermen and other civilians which are organized and sanctioned by a state to enforce its maritime boundaries. Beginning in the late 20th century, some militias (in particular officially recognized and sanctioned militias of a government) act as profe ...
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Favela
Favela () is an umbrella name for several types of impoverished neighborhoods in Brazil. The term, which means slum or ghetto, was first used in the Slum of Providência in the center of Rio de Janeiro in the late 19th century, which was built by soldiers who had lived under the favela trees in Bahia and had nowhere to live following the Canudos War. Some of the last settlements were called ''bairros africanos'' (African neighborhoods). Over the years, many former enslaved Africans moved in. Even before the first favela came into being, poor citizens were pushed away from the city and forced to live in the far suburbs. Most modern favelas appeared in the 1970s due to rural exodus, when many people left rural areas of Brazil and moved to cities. Unable to find places to live, many people found themselves in favelas. Census data released in December 2011 by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) showed that in 2010, about 6 percent of the Brazilian pop ...
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Greater Rio De Janeiro
Greater Rio de Janeiro, officially the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region (''Grande Rio'', officially ''Região Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro'', in Portuguese) is a large metropolitan area located in Rio de Janeiro state in Brazil, the second largest in Brazil and third largest in South America. It consists of 22 municipalities, including the state capital, Rio de Janeiro. The metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro is known as a historical, cultural and economic centre of Brazil, with a total population of 12 million inhabitants. The region was first officially defined on July 1, 1974, less than 1 year before the fusion of Guanabara into Rio de Janeiro. Several municipalities show a high level of conurbation, with Rio de Janeiro–Baixada Fluminense and Niterói– São Gonçalo being the most clear examples. It was changed several times to include or remove different cities in different moments of the history, in the years 1993, 2001, 2002, 2009, 2013 and 2018. The wat ...
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State Of Rio De Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro () is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil. It has the second largest economy of Brazil, with the largest being that of the state of São Paulo. The state, which has 8.2% of the Brazilian population, is responsible for 9.2% of the Brazilian GDP. The state of Rio de Janeiro is located within the Brazilian geopolitical region classified as the Southeast (assigned by IBGE). Rio de Janeiro shares borders with all the other states in the same Southeast macroregion: Minas Gerais ( N and NW), Espírito Santo ( NE) and São Paulo ( SW). It is bounded on the east and south by the South Atlantic Ocean. Rio de Janeiro has an area of . Its capital is the city of Rio de Janeiro, which was the capital of the Portuguese Colony of Brazil from 1763 to 1815, of the following United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves from 1815 to 1822, and of later independent Brazil as a kingdom and republic from 1822 to 1960. The state is divided into 92 municipalities. It stat ...
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Sérgio Cabral Filho
Sérgio de Oliveira Cabral Santos Filho (born January 27, 1963) is a Brazilian politician and journalist who served as the governor of Rio de Janeiro from 2007 to 2014. A member of MDB, he previously served as the president of the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro from 1995 to 2003, and was a senator for Rio de Janeiro from 2003 to 2007. Cabral was convicted on charges of corruption and money laundering as part of Operation Car Wash in 2017. The son of journalist Sérgio Cabral and a graduate of Centro Universitário da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, he successfully ran for Rio de Janeiro's state assembly in 1990. Cabral served as a representative from 1991 to 2003, having served as its president from 1995 to 2003. He unsuccessfully ran for Mayor of Rio de Janeiro in the elections of 1992 and 1996. In the 2002 general elections, he was elected senator for the state of Rio de Janeiro, a position he occupied from January 2003 until December 2006, when he resigned to run in ...
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Nelson Jobim
Nelson Azevedo Jobim (born 12 April 1946) is a Brazilian jurist, politician and businessman. He held the positions as congressman, Minister of Justice, Minister of Defense, Minister of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), where he was also president from 2004 to 2006. He is a member of the board of directors and responsible for institutional relations and compliance policies at BTG Pactual Bank. Biography Jobim was born in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, he is a distant relative of the musician Tom Jobim, having in common the same great-great-great-uncle, José Martins da Cruz Jobim. He is the son of the lawyer and former state deputy of Rio Grande do Sul Hélvio Jobim and Nami Azevedo Jobim. He has two brothers, Walter Jobim Neto and Hélvio Jobim Filho. His paternal grandfather, lawyer Walter Só Jobim, has been active in politics in Rio Grande do Sul since the 1920s and, in 1947, he was governor of the state. He was married to Edmea Kruel Jobim, with whom he had three children ...
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Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (; born Luiz Inácio da Silva; 27 October 1945), known Mononym, mononymously as Lula, is a Brazilian politician, trade unionist and former metalworker who has served as the 39th president of Brazil since 2023. A member of the Workers' Party (Brazil), Workers' Party, Lula was also the 35th president from 2003 to 2011. Born in Pernambuco, Lula quit school after second grade to work, and did not learn to read until he was ten years old. As a teenager, he worked as a metalworker and became a trade unionist. Between 1978 and 1980, he led the 1978–1980 ABC Paulista strikes, ABC workers' strikes during Brazil's military dictatorship in Brazil, military dictatorship, and in 1980, he helped start the Workers' Party during Redemocratization in Brazil, Brazil's redemocratization. Lula was one of the leaders of the 1984 Diretas Já, ''Diretas Já'' movement, which demanded direct elections. In 1986 Brazilian legislative election, 1986, he was elected a federal ...
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José Beltrame
José Mariano Benincá Beltrame (born 13 May 1957) is a Brazilian federal police commissioner and former Secretary of Security of Rio de Janeiro. Biography Beltrame was born in Santa Maria, in a family of Italian descent. He graduated in Law from the Federal University of Santa Maria as well as Business and Public Administration from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. He specialized in Strategic Intelligence at the Salgado de Oliveira University and the War College. He attended the Intelligence course of the National Secretary of Public Security and Police Intelligence Data Analysis, Guardian System programs. Public life Beltrame joined the Federal Police in 1981 as an agent, mainly in the area of narcotics repression He served in the intelligence sector, fighting organized crime in several states. He taught classes and lectures at the Postgraduate Course in Intelligence and Public Security at the Federal University of Mato Grosso. In the Rio de Janeiro Federal P ...
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