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I used to live in Rio , grew up there and everything he mentioned is true to the bone. When the gangs are in war it's pretty scary and an attack can happen in plain day light.

My dad is from Brasil and grew up in the favelas of São Paulo, and used to sell drugs like weed, shrooms and coke back in the 70-80s. He has lots of great stories, but has since put this lifestyle behind him. He since met my Danish mother and moved here to Denmark/Dinamarca to raise me, which I respect him for, but I wish I was more in touch with my Brazilian side and family. Saudadés 😔🇧🇷🇩🇰

I'm from Brazil, and I can say that he tells better than a lot of journalists here... Well said and very accurate! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Vice Mexico and Vice Brazil teams rn duking it out for the title of best organized crime documentaries

the way he described everything in a timeline that makes sense really painted the picture of how rough it must be to live there. great job man

I'm a Brazilian from SP, all he said was spot on.

All said by mr Nico is very accurate with the reality (especially about Rio). What a piece for journalistic work!

I had a Brazilian neighbor. Guy told me he got away from the military after his first assignment. I was baffled and asked "why?" Then he explained... First assignment as a rookie was to enter a prison after B.O.P.E, the rookies were placed in teams and were given a body part to pick up. So team 1 would be picking up Arms Team 2 would be picking up Legs Team 3 would be picking up Heads Team 4 would be picking up Torsos He gave some grimy visualization of what happens in Brazil its crazy.

I'm from Rio and everything he said is true. I remember one day in 2008 when the governor launched a massive operation for the police to retake all of the favelas in the city from the gangs. I didn't go to school that day and my mother didn't go to work because the city was basically at war. We stayed home watching the operation on TV.

Really takes me back to some of y’all’s best docs, keep it up

Great reporting by Vice as usual! Keep it up my friends!!

This is the kind of insightful, non-bias, reporting that we use to love Vice for. We would never get this point of view from mainstream media. Vice please do more stuff like this where a person can actually feed their mind instead of the dull bloated reports you've done in recent years.

Vice is back in all its glory! Much appreciated..

Nice cover of contents around the matter and perfect slides matching the conversation loved it.

great interview wish it was longer

Absolutely fascinating insights, more like this please vice!

Love theses videos best source of world wide knowledge

The irony of all this is that harm reduction is a success in Portugal.

Remember when Vice used to actually literally show us what was happening instead of telling us stories of what happens

I am brazilian and I've been living in the metropolitan area of Rio for more than 20 years. In my opinion this interview was very accurate in many subjects, despite I disagree at some points. I met at least more than 10 people who were murdered, including a teenager girl, a person related to my family, my brother's best friend (they were classmates and friends since their childhood), the son (together with his friend and in front of his own house) of a wonderfull evangelical woman who helped my family a lot in the past (may she rest in peace) and even two neighbors who were killed around 2:30am inside their home, and we all woke up with the shots - many, many shots. A few days ago, an ex neighbor who I knew relatively well was also murdered. And I still remember a few others. Ok, the point is: none of them was rich, but most of them were not needy in terms of money - as an example, an ex classmate of mine, from a private school and in better situation than me, was arrested years ago for drug trafficking, and the newspapper even mentioned that he was a middle class guy, and that his house was imponent in comparison to its neighboring buildings. Back to the subject... most of them were mestizos like me (but darker), and a few others were either black or white. And most of them had also some things in common: they were on drugs, flirting with 'thug's lifestyle', attending to funk parties in the favelas and living completely imersed in guetto's culture. And you know what? This crap cultural environment is very present among teenagers, at least in this part of Rio de Janeiro state. Teenager boys and young men acting like thugs (clothes, language, manneirisms and so on) is something you can see often here. They are part of a cultural subversion process which tends to idolize crime, drugs, free sex and money. And yes, mainstream media has been feeding this process too, and as soon as you open your mouth to point it out, some people will say "you're racist and prejudicial against this artist/song/culture because he/she/it comes from the favelas". Obviously, poverty takes a role in crime and violence, but, in my opinion, cultural environment, at least in the context of the crime in Rio de Janeiro, plays the main role.

Im Brazilian , and let me say, this is the best piece of journalism about here i've ever seen.This guy is better than most history teachers we got here and he explained very well word by word what is happening.Congratulations on this video

Excellent work. Well explained.

Excellent material!!! Thanks!❤

Great piece of work. I live in Brazil and u couldn't explain any better. fire content 🔥

Vice I’ve been wanting a more recent video on Mexicos cartels if you guys could possibly cover them again but without putting yourselves in too much danger

Outstanding interview, quite captive. It's a shame how the human mind is plagued with such trivialities to the extent of terminating one another.

Excellent video. Thanks

Great interview

Brazil is my country, I lived in a poor neighborhood, the drug dealer was my neighbor, his mother was always smoking and she had cats. Really nice people. I was only robbed once in my street. Funny thing is: weekends the baile funk were organized by him and one other neighbor, a police officer. It's funny how you grow up in this environment and it's normal for you, I miss the old days, but I understand it wasn't healthy.

I love your videos vice you guys are real news

really well done , good insight and real investigations

This was surprisingly good.

Commenting from Brazil, it's amazing how well informed Niko Vorobyov is! Congratulations! ❣But I wish he had had more time to explain his view on what a "progressive Brazilian drug policy" would look like. Furthermore, how could such a policy contribute for a broader policy on poverty reduction/elimination - which I believe is one of Brazil's top priorities?

The man is a walking encyclopedia. The world is in such a sad whirlwind that's its scary!

This was so interesting to watch. I was so into the video I didn't even realize it had gone 10 min

First: Sorry for my english, guys. Second: Bro, props for Vice has a such greats professionals envolved. I'm Brazilian, and all the topics in this video had a clearly truths about what the Brazilians are suffering.

Enslaved Africans did NOT smuggle weed on slave ships. What a dumb thing to say.

Very good coverage on the reality of life in Rio near the favelas.

Excellent story 👍👍

This wer very good questions 👍🏼💯

Decent vice stuff, just like the old days!

it’s crazy because it’s been like this for almost 30 years..the movie city of god depicts this almost exactly ..

Well done!!! What is the name of the book?

interesting video, I live in Brazil in the city of Rio de Janeiro!! this is all true, favela, building, beach, hill, all mixed up, faction war, police, militia, Christ the Redeemer and the most famous beach in the world, Copacabana!! we have many problems and yet Brazil is one of the most beautiful places in the world!!

But I wanted to see a video on Brazil's Nicest and Friendliest Drug Gangs.. When I go to Brazil, I don't want no trouble, just a good time.

The sôutheast asian gangs in phillïpines, Vietnåm and thailånd: I raised those boys

More crime videos of theses in Brazil there interesting 👍🏽

Would legalization of all drugs take away power from the gangs?

I don't know why but theses documentaries on drug cartels are my favourite. Click in seconds after thumbnail.🤷

The dictator of Brazil is a monster..

It's a very precise characterization of Rio's criminality...but lacks the depth about Brazil's biggest organized crime sindicate, wich is, PCC (primeiro comando da capital/first comand of the capital) They went from São Paulo (the biggest city and most populous) to many other parts, such as the northeast areas and north (which you encounter the board between Brazil and Paraguai, Bolivia, etc). Although' he shows that most of this kind of crime sindicates were originated in the Military Government period...not even many Brazilians know about that. Great video, as usual.

This story has been done a million times!

This reminds me a lot of Max Payne 3. That game is portrays perfectly the harsh reality not only in Brazil but Latin America as well with gangs, paramilitaries, poverty, inequality, and corruption. I wish there could be more games like that

Whoever controls the ports is the dominate one. You control the ports you control the flow of drugs, tax, trafficking routes and everything else falls in line. Hope the militia doesn’t gain superior dominance. I’m sure the cops are adding a lot of the death toll.

muito bom esse documentario

accurate representation of my experience in Brazil

As a Brazilian I can atest this guy is legit

Brazil need some legal weed, homie.

Always watching from Georgetown Guyana south America 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾

Big fan

Where there are drugs and then the gangs gain power That is when the misery goes to a whole new stratosphere

Brilliant report!!! This makes me wonder though how governments can just let it happen. And what involvement does USA Russia and China play in drug production and distribution across the world. Would be great to see a full global picture of how it’s going on.

You've used the wrong "Cristo Rei" - the footage you use is a Cristo Rei in Portugal

I wana see Vice do a special on Kensington in Philly or North Ave in Baltimore.

This is the main thing preventing Brazil from becoming a prosperous, developed country.

I wish there was something else western media can report on in Brazil besides the hoods & the cartels Brazil is absolutely beautiful 😞

wow vice, is it cartel Sunday or something?

I'm Brazilian, but from the south region, and crime is not as organized here as in other regions I mean, I didn't even know most of the details this guy is saying, although I always knew gangs had a huge war Very insightful and interesting

The Brazilian state's failure to provide jobs and opportunities for everyone is the main reason why these gangs even exist. Ironically, some Brazilians blame the Humans' Rights treaty as the reason why being a criminal seems so rewarding but is the country's failure of respecting them that promotes the current scenario, such as the mentioned ongoing employment crisis, and the fact that, beyond recruiting members from poor communities, the gangs also recruits from overcrowded prisons where inmates live in inhuman conditions, playing the role of the state by taken care of prisoners providing better food and basic items, such as clothes and a mattress.

Thanks,

Good to say a thing, this is a special situation happening in Rio state only. Other states like São Paulo have a established one-sided mafia, which is already penetrating deep in politics and "maintain order" in favelas and such. They're also expanding to another states and just do some off-the-book business with some Rio gangs. Rio is divided to a point where two different "bondes" (gangs) from the same faction battle for a favela.

Please just get rid of this polaroid filter (or whatever I should call it). It adds no value whatsoever and it's kind of ridiculous imo. Great journalism otherwise.

Think Vice is making a monopoly on drug vids, 🙄🇬🇧

as a brazilian I can say this guy know a lot of the history of our favelas and factions

The game is DEEP!

I lived in Brazil for year's and.....yes it's not so bad

As more of Rio becomes gentrified, the property prices will increase rapidly, and the favelas will be cleared to make way for new, upmarket housing.

2:44 Glock 22 Gen 4 USA model & Glock 17 with the Auto Sear

basically talking about Rio's scene which is really endemic, it does not picture Brazil's drugs scene as a whole since it is centered around PCC and its actions

There's always much coverage in regards to the violence and drugs wars here, but I lived in the favela of Pavão-Pavãozinho-Cantagalo for nearly a year and didn't have a single problem. These wars are strictly reserved for the opposition. The traffickers are nice and really have a bond with the community because this is obviously where they come from. You're more likely to be robbed outside of the favela than you ar inside of it because the traffickers don't want any more police presence there than there already is. Police will die. Drug traffickers will die. & so will innocent bystanders. Cidade Marvilhosa is a wonderful place, but I cant be remiss in regards to Brazil, as a whole being magical. My greatest times hav come in Porto Alegre and Salvador, but the natural beauty is incredibly magnificent in Rio de Janeiro and second to none in the world. Brazil will welcome you with open arms and you will be embraced once you begin learning Portuguese and accepting the culture that is being offered. It isn't all violence, nor is it all heavenly. Just put your best foot forward and don't be aloof, naive, frightened, or ignorant when you come here. Many blessings.

Do Northern ireland and interview the ira next

6:43 there is a lot of them, just not much as the younger ones, Marcola himself and Marcinho VP are like 50y old

A great movie idea,Brazil Drug Gangs vs Mexican Drug Cartels

The video was Uploaded Just 5 Minutes ago and there's already a lot of comments about it you guys time travel ? 😂

Reading these comments, it never ceases to amaze me how ignorant and shallow-thinking americans can be when speaking on the outside world. Accurate and informative video, but sadly it fits into western media coverage of Brazil as a whole, which essentially amounts to fear-mongering criminality porn . Brazil is a rich and multi-faceted country, geographically larger than the US (excluding Alaska). Its people are gorgeous, welcoming and belong to myriad subcultures, the culinary and drinking traditions are amazing, the land is beautiful and the culture is in many ways far healthier than the US. Certainly not a Level 1 backpacking destination, but with some basic street smarts and an open mind you can visit safely and have a truly special experience. Reducing Brazil to favela drug wars is like reducing the US to gangland LA, Chiraq, etc. Use some critical thinking and remember that what is shown to you is only a tiny fragment of an infinite, developing story, squeezed into text/video/anecdote

Nice

2:35 anyone know whats in those bottles? lsd, pcp, ghb, or something else?

15:12 there's a shot of the italian police, not brazilian...

This gangs reminds me of the thousand of jailed journalists, fårmêrs in vietnąm so far such as Tran Huynh Duy Thuc , Pham Chi Dung , Nguyen Tuong Thuy , Pham Chi Thanh , Can Thi Theu , Le Dinh Luong , Truong Minh Duc , Nguyen Trung Ton , Pham Van Troi , Hoang Duc Binh , Tran Anh Kim , Pham Van Diep and the green environmentalist Nguy Thi Khanh.

What happened to the training to be the cartel hitman video? Can't even play it

I expected some dubious, biased and inaccurate content, as it is often the case with international media. Was pleasantly surprised, this guy knows what's going on.

subtitle correction 12:02 - "Eu sou gringo, não falo português"

Brazil is not just Rio. This articles always cite Brazils violence as a chaotic horror movie, though they focus in specific places. Not every favela is dangerous. If you check numbers, murders per year in Brazil are half the number of overdoses in USA. We don’t have an opiate epidemic here (yet). So is Brazil that violent? And isn’t fentanyl overdose as violent as a murder? I honestly don’t think the dealers care, being a gun or a syringe, just another shot. What if every video about usa portrayed Detroit, wouldn’t it be missguiding. Anyway. Come to South America, not just Brazil. We have great places and people here. Be modest and don’t try to go to a favela playing gangster that you should be fine.

vice reporter is like ehhh lets just do a zoom call for this one lol

Got here first. I love vice

RIO GANGS*, NOT BRAZIL! São Paulo isn't this shitty mess, one cartel, no war.

Also, the biggest and most important faction of all is PCC(first capital command) CV is dwarfed by then

I'm from rio and learned a bit from this video. every word he said is 100% true

can you guys do a Puerto Rico version