Tag: Complexo do Alemão

Comando Vermelho’s Endurance: How the Prison-Born Power Structure Shaped the 2025 Complexo do Alemão Operation

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Examining the Comando Vermelho’s prison origins, territorial control, and why the Complexo do Alemão raid yielded tactical gains but limited strategic disruption The police operation in the Complexo do Alemão in 2025 reopened a familiar national debate about security, civil liberties, and the limits of force. The operation’s scale and contentious aftermath sparked polarized narratives, […]

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Militias in the Modern State: How Rio’s Paramilitary Networks Privatize Security, Control Votes, and Turn Protection Fees into Political Power

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How Militias evolved from police service providers to entrenched power brokers using bureaucracy, public contracts, and voter blocs Militias are not merely armed groups fighting in the margins, they are an emergent model of governance that blurs the line between state and private enterprise. In Bruno Paes Manso’s investigation, The Republic of Militias, he argues […]

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