Guardiões do Estado
Brazilian criminal organization
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The Guardians of the State (Brazilian Portuguese: Guardiões do Estado), or the acronym GDE, is a Brazilian criminal faction. It operates in the state of Ceará.
Guardiões do Estado | |
 Marking the territory of the criminal faction | |
| Territory | Ceará, Brazil |
|---|---|
| Ethnicity | Brazilians |
| Activities | Murder, drug trafficking, extortion, assault and rebellion |
| Allies | Terceiro Comando Puro,[1] Primeiro Comando da Capital[2] |
| Rivals | Comando Vermelho, Família do Norte,[3] Massa Carcerária [pt] |
It is the 4th largest faction in Brazil and is made up mostly of poorly prepared teenagers,[4] pre-teens and young adults.[5] One of the main reasons would be the lack of monthly fees.[clarification needed][6]
The place or date of origin of the faction is not known for sure, as some sources claim that the faction emerged in mid-2012, others claim that it emerged in 2006,[7] 2015, 2014 or 2016,[8][9][10] but the most accepted is that it appeared in 2017, in the community of Conjunto Palmeiras.[11][12]
Its internal power structure is decentralized, and therefore the faction lacks a leader. Currently, it is known for burning buses, massacres and homicides in the state,[13] the most notable being the Cajazeiras massacre.[14][15]
See also
- Primeiro Comando da Capital
- Comando Vermelho
- List of criminal gangs in Brazil
- Cajazeiras massacre
- Attacks in Ceará in 2019
