Open AccessRedes e sistemas do tráfico de drogas no Rio de Janeiro: uma tentativa de modelagem
Author(s) -
Marcelo Lopes de Souza
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
anuário do instituto de geociências
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.202
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1982-3908
pISSN - 0101-9759
DOI - 10.11137/1996_0_45-60
Subject(s) - drug trafficking , solidarity , newspaper , context (archaeology) , organised crime , consumption (sociology) , geography , political science , humanities , economy , business , welfare economics , advertising , sociology , law , criminology , economics , art , politics , archaeology , social science
Undoubtedly, most of the drug trade for local consumption in Rio de Janeiro is organized by quadrilhos (gangs) based in fovelas (shanty-towns), which are linked to different criminal organizations or networks (comandos). The most important criminal network of Rio de Janeiro, the Comando Vermelho (Red Commando) was created in the late 1970s. However, the mass media tend to give a false image of drug traffic and its structure. Although newspapers and television paaa the idea that the leaders of the drug traffic in the favelas are very powerful, they are to a considerable extent only the underlings of the drug trade's real sponsors, who have connection with important politicians, businessmen etc.; the most important traffickers, who operate at the level of the import/export/wholesale trade system, do not live in shanty-towns. Furthermore, the criminal organizations, which operate in the context of local retail trade (retail trade system), are not very centralized: the Comando Vermelho itself, whose founders are dead or in jail, is today essential)' a unstable solidarity network among inmates.