Roberto Nascimento

Roberto Nascimento, more commonly know as Captain Nascimento, is the main character of The Elite Squad franchise. In the first film, he's the commander of the Alpha Division of BOPE, and looking for someone to replace him so he can return to his family. In the sequel, after a scandal involving a prison riot gone wrong because of BOPE, Nascimento is demoted to the Minister of Defense, and is forced to "fight the system" from inside it.
==History==
===Elite Squad===
Nascimento joined the Military Police of the State of Rio de Janeiro on February 2, 1987 as an officer student at the Dom João VI Military Police Academy, and was declared an Aspiring Officer in December 1989. In 1997, Nascimento headed BOPE's Alpha Team. He had been in the service of the Military Police of the State of Rio de Janeiro for 10 years and showed signs of stress. The situation was worsened with the imminent birth of their first child, the result of marriage with Rosane. In operations carried out in favelas, the skull would climb the hill in panic and question the orders of the BOPE command. The marriage begins to enter a cycle of increasingly violent arguments and fights. Nascimento starts to be more absent in his own home. In an attempt to save "his family", Nascimento starts looking for a replacement. Initially, he sees the aspiring Neto Gouveia as a strong candidate, but the officer's irascible temperament soon casts doubt on the choice. The BOPE captain decides to follow his wife's advice to keep Neto in charge of the Alpha team, even though he suspects that the decision could be a mistake. Neto ends up suffering an ambush by drug dealers that had initially been ordered by André Mathias. After Neto's death, Nascimento adopted Mathias as his effective successor. 
===Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within===
In this film, Roberto is 40 years old and has gray hair. The plan to save the family doesn't work and the marriage ends. Nascimento returns to command of BOPE where he remains for many years, reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He remains head of the skulls until an unsuccessful operation in Bangu I. Serving as a scapegoat, he is removed from command, but thanks to the popularity achieved by the failed action, Nascimento "falls up" and is invited to join the police intelligence service. of Rio de Janeiro, which gives him unprecedented powers. The skull begins to invest heavily against drug trafficking. Nascimento amplifies BOPE's power, transforming it into a "war machine". The new position also gives Nascimento an unprecedented insight into the relationship between organized crime and politicians. According to actor Wagner Moura, in an interview with Rolling Stone 94 magazine, the former skull begins to realize that "maybe he has dedicated his whole life to a different cause than he thought he defended. The guy thinks he's serving the people, but it is serving the State, which are very different things". While his forces are fully concentrated on the work of the Public Security Secretariat, Nascimento tries to get closer to his son, Rafael, with whom he had little contact after the end of his marriage.
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