Guardiões do Estado

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, pre-teens and young adults.

The faction was founded on January 1, 2016, in the community of Conjunto Palmeiras.

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