“So They Can See How Bad We Are”: Extreme Violence in Rio Grande Do Sul’s Drug Market seeks to understand why factions and the individuals involved in the Rio Grande do Sul drug market resorted to extreme violence between 2016 and 2018. We concluded that the use of extreme violence was an essential instrument in the strategy of expansion of criminal groups in the drug market in the state. The use of violence as the main purpose of the action deepened the involvement of the subjects in the “war”, pointing to a pattern of sociability, with codes of solidarity internal to the groups.
Keywords:
extreme violence; drug trafficking; illicit market; criminal groups; youth