The (Northern Family) is a criminal faction that occupies northern

Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...

and some regions in other countries such as:

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and

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. 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 José Roberto Fernandes Barbosa, or his nickname, Zé Roberto da Compensa is a Brazilian drug trafficker, leader and one of the founders of the Família do Norte criminal faction. He was born on December 1, 1972, he started early in the life of cr ...

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 Manaus () is the List of capitals of subdivisions of Brazil, capital and largest city of the States of Brazil, Brazilian state of Amazonas (Brazilian state), Amazonas. It is the List of largest cities in Brazil, seventh-largest city in Brazil, w ...

. Between 2015 and 2018, the Familia do Norte and the

Comando Vermelho Comando Vermelho (, ''Red Command'' or ''Red Commando''), also known as CV, is a Brazilian criminal organization engaged primarily in drug trafficking, arms trafficking, protection racketeering, kidnapping-for-ransom, hijacking of armored tru ...

formed an alliance to prevent the advance of the

Primeiro Comando da Capital The Primeiro Comando da Capital ("Capital's First Command", , PCC) is a Brazilian organized crime syndicate. According to a 2023 ''The Economist'' report, the PCC is Latin America's biggest drug gang, with a membership of 40,000 lifetime members ...

in Amazonas, generating the War between the PCC and CV in 2016. In 2018, the alliance dissolved, generating a confrontation between the

and Familia do Norte, weakening the faction. The Familia do Norte also has its football team: Compensão, in which it has already invested 320 thousand reais (55 thousand dollars).

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