A degradação da paz no norte do Brasil: um exame a partir da violência entre Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) e Família do Norte (FDN)

Abstract

This paper aims to understand the spread of violence in the Northern region of Brazil, as a result of the conflict between the Northern Family (in Portuguese, Família do Norte) criminal organization and its ally, the Red Command (Comando Vermelho), against the First Command of the Capital (Primeiro Comando da Capital). The conflict was triggered by the split between the last two factions and the ensuing struggle for dominance of an international drug route known as the Solimões Route. In this final essay, initially, after a conceptual review we did an analysis of manifestation of violence in Brazil and Latin America. The period of analysis of the conflict occurred between October 2016, with the first records of the struggle between the aforementioned groups and January 2017, the apex of this conflict, to date. The methodology was based on the qualitative analysis, based on a case study. Through the theoretical framework of Studies for Peace, it seeks to understand how the struggle between criminal organizations impacts peace in the North of the country and how it spreads violence across the region. This analysis is was based on interviews and national and international media sources, selected and used according to appropriate methodology for the use of this type of source for works that use Peace Studies as a theoretical reference. As a conclusion, the states most impacted by the conflicts, Amazonas, Roraima, Rondônia and Acre, were already suffering from problems of cultural and structural violence, which provided a favorable ground for the conflict between criminal organizations and the consequent spread of direct violence. The framework that represent the official state, guarantor of security throughout the territory, have proved ineffective in reversing the direct, structural and cultural violence, as well as the dismantling of organized crime in the country.