Founded early 1980s Years active early 1980s-present | ||
Founder César "Césinha" Augusto Roris da SilvaJosé "Geleião" Márcio Felício Rivals Comando Vermelho, Primeiro Comando da Capital | ||
Terceiro Comando (portuguese for Third Command) is a Brazilian criminal organization engaged in drug trafficking in Rio de Janeiro. It was founded in the early 1980s and is a break-away faction of the Comando Vermelho.
The Terceiro Comando has fought several small-scale conflicts (in 2001 and 2004) with the rival gang Comando Vermelho.
The organization has no sole leader and is instead a horizontal reciprocity based network that helps member-gangs in different favelas as they attempt to acquire drugs and guns.
References
Terceiro Comando Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA