El Hoyo Maravilla

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Maravilla gangs are housed in the eastern side of Los Santos and are historically bound to represent their people as a whole. They are one of the longest lasting gangs in LS, with activity dating all the way back to the early 1920s. El Hoyo Maravilla, which is Spanish for 'the marvelous hole', is a shortened version of Hoyo Mara, which is the alias they go by on a day to day. It is considered the first ever Maravilla gang, and is often times known as the most notorious one out of them all because of that fact alone. Hoyo Mara's roots trace all the way back to the Prohibition Era in the 1920's and has the distriction of allowing their gang members to become apart of the Mexican Mafia's hierarchy during that time period, 17 of them to be exact.

 

Maravilla gangs as a whole are widely recognized for their resistance to the Mexican Mafia, even though they've been helping kickstart the organization as a whole, even contributing their own members to the cause. La eMe and Maravilla have been in a dysfunctional love-hate relationship since the late 1950s, up until 2000 which is when they parted from it as a whole.

• Brief History on MV's relationship with EME and NF

The love part between the two started with the formation of the Mexican Mafia in 1957, when Luis "Huero Buff" Flores embarked upon his mission to recruit leaders of Southern San Andreas based gangs. Maravillas have been apart of their hierarchy as mobsters for a couple of decades.

 

Throughout the following years, when la eMe have formed at DVI, the MV's leadership role was supplented overnight as eMe's elite prison warrios became well known among their criminal peers. La eMe did not discriminate those whom they victimized, they started to assert more dominance over weaker Latino inmates, just for disclosure about what the cause really is about - power and respect. 

 

Convicted Maravillians resented ther subservient status on the prison yards. Following the death of Tony Chacon from Lopez Maravilla in 1963, is when the hate started within their mutual relationship. The hit punctuated the eMe's lack of tolerance for any resistance shown from the Chicano inmate population, which also included Maravilla.

 

The San Quentin stabbing of James Pena, a member of Hoyo Maravilla, as well as the non fatal stabbing of Manuel Romero, also originating from Hoyo Maravilla, started what came to be known as the "Shoe War" in 1968. In this event, members of the newly formed Nuestra Familia went ahead to kill off the remaining Mexican Mafia members who remained in general population. No Mexican Mafia members were killed, however the event did end their reign of terror within the San Quentin yard for more than two years. During this time, efforts to keep la eMe off of general population lead to the alliance between the Nuestra Familia and Maravilla. 

 

During the EME vs NF conflicts in the early 70s, the Maravillian inmates were divided in their allegiances and two camps emerged. Because of the fact that majority of the Nuestra Familia members were from Northern California, most Maravillian gangs could not identify with the NF, whereas many others who had experienced the EME's wrath sought protection from the Nuestra Familia and other opressed Chicanos that were up against EME.

 

Maravilla would also suffer the wrath of the Nuestra Familia, as on October 17, 1972 at San Quentin's North Block, NF member Robert Medina, wo was released from the DAjustment Center to general population, understood that if he appeared on the prison yard, his life could potentially be in danger as the area was controlled by members of la eMe. Medina requested assistance from inmate Frank Venegas, a member of the Hoyo Maravilla gang, and purported NF ally. Venegas declined, choosing to become an observer rather than incur the EME's wrath. Medina then proceeded to acquire a prison made shank, which he used to murder Venegas in his own cell. Rather than dealing with the consiquences, Medina went into protective custody, a cowardly move known as the "PC move", short for protective custody as mentioned before.

 

Following this event, Maravilla parted themselves from the Nuestra Familia, remaining neutral with their movement.

 

From 1957 through 1973, 22 Mexican Mafia members have originated from maravilla street gangs. Seventeen of which were from the Hoyo Maravilla gang.

 

• The Aftermath

Throughout the 80s and 90s, many of the Maravillans continued to be alienated from the general population within prison and were frowned upon by the Mexican Mafia. As Maravilla convicts would win their release on state parole their older members began to spread the anti-EME sentiment among the Maravilla neighborhoods, warning them that they were in danger of incurring the EME's street wrath.

 

Beginning in the early 90s, Maravilla openly declared their opposition to EME's authority and refused to pay taxes. These Maravilla tax resistors called themselves,Los Maravillosos, which is spanish for the marvelous ones. The EME response was predictable, swift and mericless; MV gang members were targeted in county jails and prisons throughout San Andreas. Many were killed or left seriously injured.

 

The EME set out a green-light on Maravilla, which was widely recognized by the Law Enforcement given past altercations which didn't go unnoticed, they started to transfer Maravillian gang members into protective custody, to avoid them getting their wig split in general population.

 

Their green light remained up until 1992, when EME began its push to halt drivebys in Los Santos. The Maravillas were again offered a position within the Sureno subcluture, but they refused to attend any of the park meetings that were organized by the Mexican Mafia.

 

Following a series of failed attempts to recruit Maravilla into the Sureno subculture, they have remained on the EME's hit list, staying green lit. Following the conflicts, Maravilla gang members began to include "tax free" into their gang graffiti to advertise unequivocally their continued independence and reisstance to the Mexican Mafia's authority.

 

After nearly four decades of being on leper status and being ostracized by the EME and the Sureno underworld, Maravilla gang members were again brought into the MExican Mafia's criminal umbrella in the early 2000s due to it's continous wrath amongst those whom resist their authority. - "Whatever the Mexican Mafia want, they get."

 

• The New Generation

Death is widely recognized for every generation of a specific culture, being an inevitable faith, the older generation continued to school their next of kin to maintain their beliefs and culture. Although many attempts have failed, the newer generation of Maravillas continue to operate under the EME's authority. They have long dropped the green color as the one they identify with the most, and have instead went with the color red as most Sureno gangs did as well. This move is known as "red-ragging", which became quite popular amongst Southern San Andreas gangs. 

 

Modern day Maravillas have adapted to the modern day culture and continue to prosper within their own cell of the criminal underworld, still operating even to this day. Although less active due to continued indictments of the LSPD's gang injunctions, they still remain one of the biggest and baddest gangs in Southern San Andreas.

[Radical]

Oraleeee. This faction aims to portray a proper gang and poverty riddled lifestyle surrounding a predominately, but not exclusively, Hispanic community. If you wish to join please don't hesitate to send out a forum PM to either Radical, WirelessMind or dead on arrival.

Edited May 17, 2019 by Radical

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Edited May 17, 2019 by WirelessMind

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