Armed conflict for control of the favelas

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Armed conflict for control of the favelas in Greater Rio de Janeiro
BOPE agents during a raid using a "Caveirão" in 2007
Date 1990 [2] – present Location Brazil, São Paulo State (small scale) and Rio de Janeiro (large scale): Jacarezinho, Morro dos Macacos, Morro Sao Joao, Vila Cruzeiro and other favelas Status Ongoing Militias control 60% of Rio's favelas
Belligerents
Militias Liga da Justiça faction Escritório do Crime faction Police death squads	Primeiro Comando da Capital[1] Terceiro Comando Puro Amigos dos Amigos	Comando Vermelho	Brazil São Paulo State (small scale) Military Police of São Paulo State Rio de Janeiro (large scale) Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State
Commanders and leaders
Coronel Jairo Jerônimo Guimarães Filho † Carlos Alexandre Silva Cavalcante † Adriano Magalhães da Nóbrega † Ricardo Teixeira Cruz Aldemar Almeida dos Santos Toni Ângelo de Souza Aguiar Tandera Danilo Dias Lima Delson Lima Neto † Marco Antônio Figueiredo Martins † Maciel Valente de Souza †	André Macedo Oliveira Marcos Roberto de Almeida Celso Pinheiro Pimenta † Antônio Francisco Bonfim Lopes Alexandre Bandeira de Melo Luciano Oliveira Felipe † Róbson André da Silva † Márcio José Sabino Pereira † Coronel Bruno da Silva Loureiro	Elias Maluco † Mineiro da Cidade Alta † Luiz Fernando da Costa	José Beltrame Coronel Mario Sergio Duarte Orderlei Santos Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Nelson Jobim Sérgio Cabral Filho General Sardenberg
Casualties and losses
700+ deaths[3][4][5][6]

The armed conflict for control of the favelas in Greater Rio de Janeiro or simply Civil conflict for control of the favelas is an ongoing conflict between Brazilian militias, organized criminal groups Comando Vermelho, Amigos dos Amigos, Terceiro Comando Puro and the Brazilian state.

According to law student Carlos Gilberto Martins Junior, Brazil, with emphasis on the State of Rio de Janeiro, there has been an arbitrary use of these powers and attributions, conferred on police institutions, to satisfy the patrimonial aspirations of some of its agents, through territorial domination and violence, to the detriment of the peripheral communities and under the pretext of saving them from the "greater evil" represented by drug trafficking, corroborating the emergence of criminals organizations what conventionally called the "militia".^[7]