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Brazil's Red Command Rules the Favelas

2021/3/24
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Danny Gold和Sean Williams共同讲述了巴西红色指挥部(Red Command)的起源、发展和现状。他们指出,红色指挥部起源于20世纪70年代末巴西军事独裁时期的一个监狱岛,由左翼游击队员和重刑犯组成。起初带有政治色彩,但随着时间的推移,其政治理想逐渐消退,最终演变成一个以贩毒为主要目的的犯罪组织。红色指挥部通过控制里约热内卢的贫民窟(favela),建立起庞大的犯罪网络,并与警方和军队发生多次激烈冲突。他们拥有强大的武装力量,甚至拥有足以与政府对抗的武器装备。节目中还提到了巴西其他犯罪组织,例如PCC(First Capital Command),以及与之相关的警民冲突和社会问题。 Danny Gold和Sean Williams深入探讨了红色指挥部与巴西社会、政治和经济之间的复杂关系。他们分析了贫民窟的形成原因,以及政府在解决贫民窟问题上的失职。他们还探讨了红色指挥部如何利用政治口号来掩盖其犯罪行为,并获得部分民众的支持。此外,他们还分析了巴西警方和军队的暴力行为,以及其对社会稳定和人权的影响。节目中还提到了巴西毒品交易的现状,以及红色指挥部在国际毒品贸易中的作用。

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The Red Command was formed in a maximum security prison in Brazil, where political prisoners and hardcore criminals bonded over shared struggles against the prison system.

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In the late 1970's when a military dictatorship ruled Brazil, revolutionaries and hardcore criminals formed a collective in a brutal maximum security island prison, giving birth to Brazil's first super gang, the Red Command. Though their political ideals soon melted away, leaving only a ruthless, well-armed network of drug dealers, they would eventually have enough power to take on the state and take over most of Rio.

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