Record comes to Acre and launches documentary with controversial interviews with authorities and former faction members about the crime

The documentary Fronteira do Pó, made by Rede Record de TV, on its Play Plus streaming service, provided an overview of the impacts of drug trafficking on the triple border, where the state of Acre, Bolivia and Peru meet.

Former members of the two largest factions in the state discussed their activities and other issues related to drug trafficking, since its inception, and even about rebellions in Acre prisons.

“We had the arrival of the red command in 2013 and the PCC in 2011. Prisoners of Francisco de Oliveira Conde decided to replicate the methodology and create a local faction, known as Bonde dos 13”, explains prosecutor Bernardo Albano.

“A former drug addict, former killer, former Red Command”, this is how one of them identifies himself, who was sentenced to 23 years in prison. “The first criminal organizations emerged in maximum security prisons. When I joined Comando Vermelho it was in a prison between 2015 and 2016”, he reveals, saying that he was the first member of the faction to carry out murders in his name.

It is estimated that the CV, as Comando Vermelho is popularly known, has 12 thousand men and 2 thousand women, having arrived in the state just over 10 years ago, in 2013.

The man tells stories about his time as a faction/Photo: Reproduction/RecordTV

One of the former leaders of Bonde dos 13, a rival faction, also spoke to TV Record production. “It was formed by 13 different leaders, in the beginning, 90% of the prison (Francisco de Oliveira Conde) was made up of members of B13”, he reveals.

The power paradigm between the two criminal groups began to reverse when Jorge Rafaat, a great leader of the PCC, who was allied with the B13 in the state, died in an ambush in 2016.

The CV member claims that he participated in the trigger for the “war” between the factions in the state, when, at the age of 17. “I went into his house, shot myself in the back of the head, I wanted to get out quickly, so I took a knife from his house and scratched a C and a V on his chest.”

He further states that, after this moment, the taking of territory within the city began.

“We arrived in a neighborhood, killed one killed other, burned the houses and already gaining territory, that’s how it all started, and then the command was issued to have a rebellion in Acre”, he explains about the beginning of the period of conflicts and about rebellions that occurred at the time.

The B13 member states that life inside prison is always unpredictable as a member of a faction. “You sleep on the enemy’s side, today I know the risk. There are people who sleep with you, inside your cell, just to kill you. Risk of being poisoned, risk of sunbathing and dying.”

B13 member talks about having to sleep with his potential killer/Photo: Reproduction/RecordTV

Marcos Lindoso, one of the founders of B13, known as Dragão, was decapitated and had his heart ripped out during a riot in a maximum security prison in the state of Acre.

A former faction member, who was imprisoned for seven years and was present at the rebellion, talks about how the situation occurred, from the point of view of those inside the prison.

“It was a very sad scene. When that war happened, everyone was mixed up, then when the command came that was to shoot, then it was in that order that whoever was in the buildings was to kill, it was to invade the pavilion and then the rebellion happened”, he explained.

Judge Raimundo Nonato says that the way situations unfold in this environment are different from the real world. “In the penitentiary system it is another world, a world apart, with extreme violence in which each sector of the penitentiary system is dominated by someone, with power, be it to sell things inside, to authorize visits, so everything there is sliced ​​and everything It’s paid there,” he says.

The judge states that the war on drugs has been one of the failures of public authorities/ Photo: Reproduction/RecordTV

The rebellion reported by the former faction resulted in the transfer of Deibson Nascimento and Rogério Mendonça, to maximum security prison in Mossoró, who would later carry out an escape that lasted 50 days.

Finally, Nonato says that fearing the power that this parallel state is taking is plausible, and that this needs to be treated with great care and seriousness.

“This fear that the parallel state will act with almost the same strength as the institutional state is a fear that we have to think about very seriously because we are experiencing a moment in which these criminal organizations have very great power and are preparing to create this parallel state.”

To watch the full documentary, visit Play Plus link.