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Guardiões do Estado

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Guardians of the State

Guardiões do Estado
Marking the territory of the criminal faction
Founded	1 January 2016
Founding location	Conjunto Palmeiras, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
Years active	2016-present
Territory	Ceará, Brazil
Activities	Murder, drug trafficking, extortion, assault and rebellion
Allies	Terceiro Comando Puro,[1] Primeiro Comando da Capital[2]
Rivals	Comando Vermelho, Família do Norte[3]

The Guardians of the State (Brazilian Portuguese: Guardiões do Estado), or the acronym GDE, is a Brazilian criminal faction. It operates in the state of Ceará.

It is the 4th largest faction in Brazil and is made up mostly of poorly prepared teenagers,^[4] pre-teens and young adults.^[5] One of the main reasons would be the lack of monthly fees.^{[clarification needed][6]}

The faction was founded on January 1, 2016, in the community of Conjunto Palmeiras [pt].^[7][8]

Faction power is decentralized, so there is no overall faction leader. Currently, it is known for burning buses, massacres and homicides in the state,^[9] the most notable being the Cajazeiras massacre [pt].^[10][11]

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