Terceiro Comando
| Founded | early 1980s |
|---|---|
| Founder | César "Césinha" Augusto Roris da Silva José "Geleião" Márcio Felício |
| Founding location | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Years active | early 1980s-present |
| Criminal activities | Murder, drug trafficking, arms trade, and bank robbery |
| 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.
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