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2023 Salguiero raid
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On March 23, 2023, Brazilian police raided a favela in São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro in search of drug traffickers from Comando Vermelho. Thirteen drug traffickers were killed in the raid, and two were arrested. The raid was one of the deadliest in Rio de Janeiro history.
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Background
Comando Vermelho is one of Brazil's largest drug trafficking cartels. Since 2019, CV militants have killed over 40 police officers in Pará, a northern Brazilian state.[1] The Salguiero complex, a favela in Rio de Janeiro's Sao Goncalo favela that's home to a million people, was targeted in 2021 in a raid that killed nine people, and a massacre that same year in Jacarezinho.[2][3]
Raid
The raid was conducted by officers from Para and from Sergipe.[1] The target of the raid was Leonardo Costa Araujo, the head of CV in Para who had been wanted by Brazilian authorities since 2019.[1] Araujo was responsible for the killings of the 40 police officers in Para, and also conducted drug trafficking activities in Salguiero.[1] Several other smaller leaders for CV in western Rio were targeted as well.[4] A spokesman for the Rio de Janeiro police stated that the raid turned into a shootout, and all Brazilian police vehicles had bullet holes.[4] After the raid, police vehicles drove through Salguiero until nightfall.[4]
Thirteen people were killed in the raid, including Araujo.[4][1] Two CV militants were arrested, and two civilian bystanders were injured and taken to the hospital.[4] The raid was tied for the eighth deadliest in Brazilian history, alongside the 1995 Alemao raid, the Morro do Vidigal raid in 2006, and the Catumbi raid in 2007.[1]
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