Terceiro Comando

Terceiro Comando (Portuguese for Third Command), known by the acronym TC, was a Brazilian criminal organization engaged in drug trafficking in Rio de Janeiro.^[1] It was founded in the early 1980s^[1] and is a break-away faction of the Comando Vermelho.^[2]

Terceiro Comando

Founded	early 1980s
Founders	Pianinho and Adilson Balbino
Founding location	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Years active	early 1980s-2006
Membership	drug trafficking, arms trade, and bank robbery[1]
Rivals	Comando Vermelho

The Terceiro Comando has fought several small-scale conflicts (in 2001 and 2004) with the rival gang Comando Vermelho.^[1]

The organization has no sole leader and is instead a horizontal reciprocity based network that helps member-gangs in different favelas as they attempt to acquire drugs and guns.^[1]