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Família Do Norte
The Familia do Norte (English: Northern Family) is a criminal faction that occupies northern Brazil and some regions in other countries such as: Colombia, Peru and Venezuela. It is considered the 3rd largest faction in Brazil, and the largest in the state of Amazonas, in addition to not having good relations with other Brazilian factions, having already entered into several faction wars. The group was created in 2007 by Fernandes Barbosa, Zé Roberto da Compensa and Gelson Carnaúba (known as Mano G.), it emerged in prisons and outskirts of Manaus, as a way of fighting to prevent the precarious and dangerous conditions that affected prisoners in Manaus. Between 2015 and 2018, the Familia do Norte and the Comando Vermelho formed an alliance to prevent the advance of the Primeiro Comando da Capital in Amazonas, generating the War between the PCC and CV in 2016. In 2018, the alliance dissolved, generating a confrontation between the Comando Vermelho Comando Vermelho (, ''Red C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manaus
Manaus () is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. It is the seventh-largest city in Brazil, with an estimated 2020 population of 2,219,580 distributed over a land area of about . Located at the east center of the state, the city is the center of the Manaus metropolitan area and the largest metropolitan area in the North Region of Brazil by urban landmass. It is situated near the confluence of the Negro and Solimões rivers. It is the only city in the Amazon Rainforest with a population over 1 million people. The city was founded in 1669 as the Fort of São José do Rio Negro. It was elevated to a town in 1832 with the name of "Manaus", an altered spelling of the indigenous Manaós peoples, and legally transformed into a city on October 24, 1848, with the name of ''Cidade da Barra do Rio Negro'', Portuguese for "The City of the Margins of the Black River". On September 4, 1856, it returned to its original name. Manaus is located in the center of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 States of Brazil, states and the Federal District (Brazil), Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese language, Portuguese as an List of territorial entities where Portuguese is an official language, official language and the only one in the Americas; one of the most Multiculturalism, multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass Immigration to Brazil, immigration from around the world; and the most populous Catholic Church by country, Roman Catholic-majority country. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a Coastline of Brazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organized Crime Groups In Venezuela
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Organized Crime Groups In Brazil
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2007 Establishments In Brazil
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Terrorism In Brazil
Terrorism in Brazil has occurred since at least the 1940s. Terror organizations Shindo Renmei The Shindo Renmei were a Japanese-Brazilian terror organization whose attacks were focused on resistance to the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II; attacks were perpetrated against other Japanese-Brazilians. LESSER, Jeffrey. "Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil". Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. Portuguese edition: Negociando a Identidade Nacional: Imigrantes, Minorias e a Luta pela Etnicidade no Brasil (São Paulo: Editora UNESP, 2001. Islamic terror groups According to the Brazilian Federal Police, at least seven Islamic terror groups operate in Brazil: *Al Qaeda * Jihad Media Battalion *Hezbollah *Hamas * Islamic Jihad *Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiyya *Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group These groups operate inside the national territory and most are also known to operate on the border of Paraguay and Argentina with Bra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manaus Compensão Esporte Clube
Manaus Compensão Esporte Clube, commonly known as Manaus Compensão, or as Compensão, is a Brazilian football club based in Manaus Manaus () is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. It is the seventh-largest city in Brazil, with an estimated 2020 population of 2,219,580 distributed over a land area of about . Located at the east center of the s ..., Amazonas. History The club was founded on August 20, 2009, after competing for several years in the Peladão amateur competition. They won the Campeonato Amazonense Second Level in 2009. In January 2017, a Federal Police operation discovered that the club was financed, during its first season, by the criminal faction Família do Norte, which runs drug trafficking and criminality in the state of Amazonas. Achievements * Campeonato Amazonense Second Level: ** Winners (1): 2009 Stadium Manaus Compensão Esporte Clube play their home games at Estádio Francisco Garcia, commonly known as ''Chicã ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conflict Between Brazilian Criminal Factions Since 2016
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Gelson is a Portuguese-language masculine given name. People with the given name Gelson * Gelson Domingos da Silva (c.1965 – 2011), Brazilian TV cameraman killed while reporting *Gelson Fernandes (born 1986), Swiss footballer *Joseph Gelson Gregson (1835–1909), English Baptist missionary to India *Gelson Martins (born 1995), Portuguese footballer * Gelson Rodrigues (born 1982), Brazilian footballer *Gelson Silva (born 1967), Brazilian football manager * Gelson Singh (born 1994), Indian cricketer People nicknamed Gelson *Geraldo dos Santos Júnior (born 1979), Brazilian footballer known as Gelson * Jacinto Muondo "Gelson" Dala (born 1996), Angolan footballer See also * *Gelson's Markets Gelson's is a regional supermarket chain operating in Southern California. It operates service-oriented stores mostly in upscale neighborhoods. The Mayfair Connection actually began years before Gelson's did. Estimates put the genesis of the cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernandes Barbosa
Fernandes is a surname in the Portuguese-speaking countries. The name is a patronymic form of the Portuguese and Spanish personal name ''Fernando''. Fernandes is the 243rd most common surname in the world, the 3rd one in Angola and in São Tomé and Príncipe, the 10th one in Portugal and the 18th one in Brazil. The Spanish version of this surname is Fernández. Fernandes surname is also very common in Goa. People with the surname Fernandes include Explorers * Álvaro Fernandes, Portuguese explorer and navigator * António Fernandes, Portuguese explorer *Baltasar Fernandes, Portuguese explorer of Brazil *Duarte Fernandes, Portuguese explorer and diplomat * João Fernandes Lavrador, Portuguese explorer * Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Portuguese explorer Academics * Florestan Fernandes, Brazilian sociologist and politician * Jane Fernandes, president-designate of Gallaudet University *Norma Fernandes, Pakistani Catholic teacher, honored with Tamgha-i-Imtiaz *Rosette Batarda Fern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venezuela
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Peru
, image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg , image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg , other_symbol = Great Seal of the State , other_symbol_type = Seal (emblem), National seal , national_motto = "Firm and Happy for the Union" , national_anthem = "National Anthem of Peru" , march = "March of Flags" , image_map = PER orthographic.svg , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Lima , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , official_languages = Peruvian Spanish, Spanish , languages_type = Co-official languages , languages = , ethnic_groups = , ethnic_groups_year = 2017 , demonym = Peruvians, Peruvian , government_type = Unitary state, Unitary Semi-presidential system, semi-presidential republic , leader_title1 = President of Peru, President ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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