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This thread will follow the life of Raymond “El Japo” Ota, a Japanese-American, native to East Los Santos who gets twisted up in the Chicano culture that surrounded him his whole life.

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LUIS 'BIG SMILEY' ESPINOZA The following thread's purpose it follow the development of Luis Espinoza, a Los Santos native. 1975, Luis Espinoza is born into an immigrant family, in the city of Los Santos. His parents, both immigrants from Michoacán in search for a better life, due to the severe levels of poverty and the state of Mexico in general. During that era, there was a huge influx of Mexican immigrants, and it helped form the state into what it is today. However, there was also a huge influx of crime, not only by Mexicans, but all ethnic groups. It was an important period of time, when gangs were establishing, becoming more powerful and setting the stones for generations to come. It was a big period for The Mexican Mafia, in 1971 the first hit outside of prison walls took place, changing the game. There were also various schemes taking place such as The Mexican Mafia & LACF collaborating together to infiltrate legal operations. Luis Espinoza was raised in poverty, alongside his parents and brother Rodrigo Espinoza. He found comfort in the local gang and created friends within it, he didn't see it as a gang, they were just local kids, just like him, living in the same neighbourhood. Issue is, people think that gang members are like an alien form. Luis' brother was younger, and Luis wasn't able to play with him like the kids in the varrio, so he played with the other kids. He was never inside, his Mother would claim. The local gang undertook various illicit activities, such as drug dealing, extortion, prostitution and whatever else could line their pockets. Luis became close with a fellow barrio kid, called Gonzalo 'Joker' Garcia.Joker was the one all the big homies liked, the ones they'd have kicking it with them whilst they were sipping pistos on their porches or playing dice. He was the kid. The South Side Tokers had taken control over the barrio after the fall of Varrio Grape & their allied Crip neighbours. By the age of 16/17, Joker took it upon himself, with the help of numerous homeboys, to form the South Side Rancheros, an attempt by a new generation to take over the area and control it. Problems arose, with Joker and his associates successful, there was now competition, and the original Tokers set was still around. The two groups, whom were once one, now had hot sand under their feet, and conflicts soon followed. The new generation, South Side Rancheros, soon rose to victory, leaving the Tokers defunct, with members at the wrong end of a gun, in prison, or even changing set and joining the Rancheros. Time went on, Ranchers introduced a new era of crime and brought peaceful crime to their neighbourhood, and a new type of gang activity to the area. They were hit with multiple injunctions, and with huge efforts against is, many face members of the set ended up dead, or locked up. Luis was one of them, he was sent to Bolingbroke and served a hefty sentence alongside people such as Fernando 'Spider' Perez & so on. Fortunately for Joker, he avoided prison and did the dash, after most of his loyal homeboys were killed and pinched. Inside, Luis would find himself programming with La Eme, also known as The Mexican Mafia. It wasn't long before Joker himself winded up in Bolingbroke and became a good friend of 'Chato'. Joker's name was put forward and he was eventually recognized as an Emero after proving himself to the cause & putting in work. It was a big thing to the homeboys, one of their own was now an official within La Eme, who knows where it could take them and their ventures. Joker and Chato were eventually released, however Luis remained inside. Whilst serving his time, he became addicted to heroin and had many problems regarding it, including debt & so forth. Luckily the debts were paid off, and Luis didn't get into bad standing with his own. He was subject to a self-proclaimed rehab, and spent years trying to get himself clean, of course he relapsed numerous times, but eventually, after being sent to segregation due to violence, he was soon clean & stuck to it. Come 2020, Luis was released from Bolingbroke and returned to his family home, but it wouldn't be the same, his Mother had passed away during his incarceration after becoming a severe alcoholic, along with drug addiction. His father had moved on twenty years prior, and had given Luis a half brother. The story continues, Luis now free as a veterano, who knows where the story will end.

--- Before I start, I'm not going to upload many edited Screenshots, because of the possible MG. I will let your imagination travel through the images I will be posting, maybe I will upload something relevant as an edited Screenshot or after a while to avoid the possible MG, if you see your character or your name in my story? Feel free to comment and greet me without any problem. --- - - - Didac Fraga was born in '98 at Davis Hospital, son of Carmen Maria Juarez, a former teacher who worked in first grade schools and Roberto Fraga, a former Sureño gang member who ended up in jail after killing a police officer when Fraga was just 1 year old. When little Didac was 5 years old, his mother, seeing that she could no longer afford the rent or her job, and that she began to transform little by little into an alcoholic woman, started dating a white man from Vespucci --- After a while, the man helped Carmen to get out of that problem, but there was another... The white man never liked the presence of the little Fraga, so he never included him in his family outings, he used to stay at home or with the one who cleaned the white man's house, while he and his two children together with Didac's mother went for a walk and had fun. When Didac turned six, he had his first family outing, what he didn't know was that it would be to the city's orphan center near South Central for homeless children, where his mother would send him off for the last time with a kiss on the forehead. Little Didac didn't understand why his mother was leaving him, he simply cried and hoped that someday he would see her again, a year passed and when he turned 7 years old he realized that he would never see her again.... That same year a lady named Dolores, about fifty years old, came to the orphan center, which normally frequented, she had her eye on little Didac, since he was always alone or played alone in the park so she decided to adopt him and signed all the papers, at first Didac did not understand, but little by little he became very fond of Dolores, whenever he could he tried to help her in everything, the lady was becoming his mother of the heart and Didac for the first time felt that feeling and affection of a mother. In Dolores' house, which was located in Davis, not only Didac lived there, but there were also two little African-American a boy and a girl and only one little Mexican girl, it was a mixed house and Didac was the missing piece to fill Dolores' home. So he grew up in the Davis neighborhood again, going to school in Davis and training boxing as a pre-teen at a local gym. When he turned 14, he started working at a 24/7 where he met his future "primo" Frank Rodriguez, who was responsible for changing Didac's life and showing him what it was like to make a name for himself on the streets of Davis since he was kicking with a gang back then Didac grew up surrounded by gang members affiliated with the Davis Varrio Tortilla Flats, where he began to frequent more and more until he stopped being a simple taggbanger and started selling drugs on the streets, obviously his mother Dolores didn't like it and always reproached him that he could end up dead or in jail; At the age of 17 he had some problems with another local gang of African Americans in the 24/7 where he worked, which ended in a fight and Didac was kicked from his job with no chance to return, as he was considered a gang member. In revenge to what happened he decided to track down those who did that to him and went with several friends from his neighborhood, that's when he earned his famous nickname "Coyote", since he attacked one of the African Americans who lived in Covenant Av by his back, taking him to the ground and kicking him all over his body, until he was run away by 6 guys but they couldn't catch him because he was too fast like a Coyote. After a few days, a normal afternoon for Didac who was selling drugs, a white Albany Primo arrived and several African Americans approached him in it and began to demand money and drugs, because if not, they were going to shoot him for messing with the younger brother of a gang member affiliated with the Rollin' 60s Crips, At that moment Didac played dumb and ran away but he was shot in his left leg, that made the police arrive to the place and check him, taking away the drugs and taking him to the hospital to be later transferred to the juvenile center where he was 18 years old and was able to leave thanks to the help of his mother Dolores. After a few months he was with "Davis Varrio Tortilla Flats", he became affiliated by his primo who was already in the gang, the cousin had a problem with the gang about money and more over he had more problems with other local gangs so he had to follow him, because otherwise all the problems that Primo had were going to fall on Fraga, then he lied to his mother telling her that he had a chance to fight amateur in the state of Nevada thanks to the gym where he was attending, since Didac was always dedicated to boxing and it was one of his passions, so he had to travel and spend some time there, to which Dolores believed him and prepared a backpack with his clothes and money. They went to the Valley, they lived for a while in a motel room on route 68, the cousin was dedicated to stealing cars and Fraga used to work in a local store in the area over Harmony, the cousin was locked up and after several months almost 1 year he was killed in there for revenge for what happened with his ex-gang, and Didac had to stay in the north and kept working until he got tired of renting in the motel and saved enough money to buy a cheap truck-home, he lived for a while near Lago Zancudo by the help of his boss Cassidy. He got another job in Sandy in another store 24/7 and also got a job as a cleaner and cook in the kitchen of Trippy's bar (a Mongol bar) by the help of Eight-Ball (Who would be responsible for introducing Didac to the biker world and its culture in general, going to Mongols MC events with Sandy's chapter).

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The purpose of this thread is to follow the lives of Richard Barela, and his younger brother Joseph Barela, both Rancho born and raised. In the summer of 2004, Richard Barela was born to his Mexican born father, Rodrigo Barela and American born mother Yolanda Barela. The couple were not long wedded and had moved to Rancho from El Burro Heights due to the cost of living, and the low-income area of Rancho's housing opportunities for a young, broke couple. Richard wasn't planned, nor was he easy. The couple worked away almost every day in order to provide for their son, Rodrigo worked in construction, and his mother Yolanda worked in sanitation services after returning to work after maternity leave. Still, it was hard for the parents to raise their first child, bills were to be paid, rent was due, and now they had a baby to look after, not forgetting the money they'd lost due to their wedding costs. Over time, it got better, but it meant Richard would find himself in the care of his Abuela more often than before, up until the age he was ready to start kindergarten. It wasn't long before Rodrigo and Yolanda soon welcomed another son into the world, Joseph Barela. They gave both of their sons everything they could, but as most parents know, it isn't always enough. Love can only do so much, the rest depends on money, time and a whole load of other things. The two brothers were raised in a lively household, their cousins were always around the house, there were always parties and it always seemed to be someone's Quinceañera every other month. The family was well known, and well respected. Rodrigo had a great work ethnic and often had friends from work over for barbeques and family parties, they were real social butterflies, Yolanda especially. Years went by, and the two brothers had a great childhood. Sure, they were poor, ''but money doesn't always make you rich'', quoting Rodrigo. Those words were taken lightly by the two brothers, who would soon grow into teenagers and search for money by any means, including theft, fraud and whatever else could put a dollar in their pockets. It didn't start with crime, originally they'd rake leaves, mow lawns, do paper rounds and other tasks, but eventually the local gang got grips on the two. Their older cousin Benjamin 'Cazador' Atuñez was a veterano in the sureño gang 'Varrio Rancho 13'. It didn't help seeing their elder cousin in nice cars, with chicks, money and a whole load of respect in their neighbourhood. They aspired to be as cool as him. Benjamin had a huge rep in the area, being known as the PRIMO GENERAL, for his historical lead of the clique 'Los Primos', a ferocious clique branched off Varrio Rancho, who had been through many wars with other rival gangs including several Crip sets, along with Bloods. Los Primos were almost like an EBK clan, if you weren't with them? You weren't nobody. It all came to an end though, like most things do. There were a series of raids from the Los Santos Police Department which soon would see the downfall of Los Primos, with most members locked up for serious crimes, or even dead, the clique died with them. Time went on, and the two brothers would find themselves hanging out with a bad crowd, as their father would claim. Rodrigo wasn't a fan of it at all, he called them idiots, ''pendejos wearing clothes that're too big for their puny bodies.'' Rodrigo sook a bright future for his two sons, he was a paisa after all, the way of life in Mexico was certainly much different to the life in Los Santos.

This thread will follow the development of Donovan Maldonado (R)

Development of the A Character Name: Angel Varela Origin: Mexican-American Occupation: Davis High Family: N/A Story: Angel Varela is a 15-year-old male from Davis Avenue South Los Santos, San Andreas. Like every other Mexican American man who was born and raised in inner-city Los Santos, he had a rough upcoming as a kid. With a mother with two jobs, and an absent father who left him once he was conceived, Angel had no father figure in his life, and quite frankly he had to be his own father figure. Growing up off of Davis Avenue there was no doubt that Angel would fall victim to the streets. Though Angel was tied up in the streets, he still attended school and eventually graduated from South LS High at the age of 15. Not interested in any post-secondary education, Angel continues his dedication and dependency on the streets to make money for himself. As time passed, Angel is moved out of the spotlight of being the only child, not knowing how to handle this change, he becomes a growing reckless hazard, which causes him to eventually be put out of his mother's home. Today, Angel crashes on a couch every night that sits in government housing in the area of Brogue Avenue quiet, content, and to himself. Current Faction

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The thread below will encapsulate the escapades of Matthew Figueroa—a Chicano police officer.

This can be considered a guide, an information tab, or a bit of both if you wish to call it that, but the main point of this being created is to dive into the dominant Latino-American street gang politics within Los Angeles County and the surrounding areas around it. This thread isn't going to dive into anything else, except for Latino-American street gang politics in Los Angeles County, so it's not the place to come for an overall street gang guide or information tab. First, to understand the entire scene itself you need to understand the culture behind the people themselves, and not just gang-members. For the most part it might seem like this guide/information tab is most copied and pasted, but I can assure you there'll be a lot of things I've solely written up myself for this, the stuff that has been copied and pasted are important and should be read. I'll quote two things below that will help you understand where I'm going to be going with this: I think the two quotations above are really important and should be read as it'll be somewhat of a golden key to this guide/information tab. So let me get started: MEXICAN - CHICANO & PAISANO I. Mexican-American heritage This is a really important thing in today's day n age, mainly due to the fact Mexican-Americans are known as Chicanos and Chicanos tend to have a really big sense of pride amongst themselves, which is where the Chicano movement started from and when the Brown Pride clothing brand began to pop up and become pretty known within the United States of America. I'll start off by saying that this all dates back to the 1960s when the Chicano Civil Rights Movement started for the sole reason to help Mexican-Americans be recognized by others in the United States of America and be treated equally as citizens and to have their identity as Chicanos be recognized. I'll quote another thing below that'll help you understand where I'm coming from with this: The Wikipedia sections I quoted should be read as I only quoted a few that are important to your character's roleplay and portrayal if you plan to roleplay a Mexican-American character in-game. II. Paisano heritage Paisanos, also known as Paisas for short are people from Mexico or other parts of Latin-America (we'll be sticking with Mexican for this section) that are simply non-Mexican-Americans in the United States of America but has also been adopted by homegrown Mexicans in Mexico too. The word Paisa comes from Paisano which in Spanish means Countrymen/Countryman, the reason Mexicans who came to the United States were considered this is due to how they dressed, moved as a person and more times than not was also a derogatory term overall to sometimes used to insult Mexicans until it was more or less adopted by themselves, and used as a banner for their people. It has even become so embraced by Mexicans that they also have pride for being a Paisano and have made clothing with "Paisa" written on them. A lot of the times, more or less most of these Paisanos in the United States of hard-working individuals but some of them get sucked into gang violence, and in-turn get arrested and deported, which is why you see a lot of native Los Angeles gangs all around Latin-America today. CENTRAL AMERICAN - GUANACO & PAISANO I. Guanaco heritage The term Guanaco is mainly associated with Salvadorans as it's a homegrown term used by people in El Salvador, just like Chicano is for Mexican-Americans, Guanaco was a term that has been around for decades if not centuries and used by Salvadorans in El Salvador as a way to refer to their people. But to understand how the "Guanaco" movement came about, even though it's not as popular as the Chicano movement, you need to look back at the Salvadoran Civil War which I'll quote a bit about down below: Due to the war in El Salvador, many Salvadorans fled El Salvador and came to the United States of America by train, and foot, and then even boats once they reached certain parts of Mexico. But to understand why Guanaco is a thing, you need to look at what happened when Salvadorans arrived in Los Angeles in the mid-late 70s and early 80s. Around these time eras, Mexican-Americans began to terrorize Salvadorans and often kidnapped, raped and beat up women killed fathers in front of their families and killed kids to hurt families, it was due to this that Salvadorans began to use the term Guanacan as a way of saying they were never going to be considered Chicanos or support the Brown Pride movement in Los Angeles at the time. Due to this many other Central-Americans who came to Los Angeles around this time era were also given the same treated that Salvadorans were given, and they also adopted the Guanaco term and it soon turned into a movement that was driven by many Central-American nationalities. II. Central-American Paisanos The reason I've separated the Paisano banner from Mexican to Central-American is for this very reason, unlike Mexican Paisanos, Central-American Paisanos are considered Guanacos as it was a homegrown term that came about in El Salvador and not the United States of America. Alright, so now that I've gotten the main history down on the thread it's time to dive deep into the gang politics and what's what. STREET GANGS - SUREÑOS & SUREÑAS & TAX FREE GANGS Now you might be wondering where does the book-length of information about the Mayan, Aztec, Chicano, Guanaco and Paisano culture tie into a gang-related guide/information tab but you'll see in a moment how everything adds up. I. Mexican Mafia The Mexican Mafia a/k/a known as La eMe or The M is a hybrid prison street gang/organization that rules the majority of the Latino-American street gangs in California, or in this instance it'd be San Andreas. Now, the Mayan and Aztec culture plays a huge part in a Sureño's lifestyle as in prison the communication via kites also known as letters exchanged by inmates are often written in Nahuatl which is the language that was primarily used by the Aztecs back in the day, now Nahuatl is commonly used amongst Emeros and other Sureños in the SHU, but is sometimes used in gen-pop too. A lot of the kites that aren't in Nahuatl aren't like how a lot of prison factions portray them to be, in-fact although they might be written in English; words are normally backwardly written and positions swapped with coded words being written a certain way to point out what's writing, for example: "Love to all my fellow Southsiders on the tier, I want you to keep programming as normal every day and keep your head down". Now, that simple and seemingly harmless kite/letter could translate to something much bigger, and mean that there's a war starting or a riot might happen: "I want you to keep programming, and keep your head down" could translate to what I've stated. I'm not a prison roleplay expert but coded kites/letters that aren't in Nahuatl are normally written like that or something along the lines. You'll never really see a kite/letter written with upfront words about what's what in case of a Correctional Officer who isn't corrupt, obtaining the said kite/letter. In-fact there have even been instances with Aztec related symbols being tattooed on Sureños both in prison and on the streets, this is also where the Mayan culture comes into play as the Mayan number symbols are used by Sureños to often refer to the number they claim whether it be 18th Street, a gang that flies 13, MS-13 for 1319; M - 13 and S - 19 or whether it's 38th Street, 36th Street, Compton Varrio hoods, you get the point. The Mexican Mafia's reign over all Sureño gangs is to this very day, still known to be quite powerful and dominant due to the enforcement of fear and respect on the streets, and in prison. Every Sureño gang pays tribute to the Mexican Mafia in return for protection in prison and sometimes it can stretch to even being supported depending on the occasion at hand. II. Sureños & Sureñas Street gangs under the Mexican Mafia are referred to Sureño gangs, also known as Southsider gangs in English. Southsiders, for the most part, claim the number 13 but depending on the hood's politics, they may claim a different number or not even claim a number at all, the examples I'll give of this are: 18th Street, Compton Varrio 155, East Side Clover and Varrio Nuevo Estrada. Now, I'll give two examples of even more complex politics down below: Some hoods may not even claim to be Sureños even though when thrown into a category they are, three examples of this are: 18th Street, Mara Salvatrucha 13, and East Side Clover. This is why a lot of people get confused by street gang roleplayers on servers and sometimes rush to assume they aren't roleplaying the gang properly when it might just be that the gang has different hood politics on the outside than others. The thing I will point out is that whenever a gang member goes to prison, even if he doesn't claim to be a Sureño if his hood by right pays tribute to the Mexican Mafia then he will be considered a Sureño on the inside. Now, this is also where the Paisano perspective comes into play, a lot of Paisanos when they go to prison side with the Southerner Car which is what the Mexican Mafia rules in prison, where every Sureño is thrown into a single prison car and expected to follow a bunch of rules, regulations, and guidelines. But also, there's a lot of Paisanos who come to Los Angeles when they are young and get sucked into gang violence, or come to Los Angeles when they're older and have kids whose kids then get sucked into gang violence, making it a rinse and repeat non-stop cycle of gang volence that spreads down south towards Latin-America when immigrants are arrested and don't have citizenships and are therefore sent back to their home country, with a lot of the times they form their gang/clique/set in their old neighborhood. III. Politics A) This is split into separate parts due to how complex it will be, so I'll begin. Alright, so I'll quote what I've said above before diving into this in a more complex manner first: "Now, I'll give two examples of even more complex politics down below: Some hoods may not even claim to be Sureños even though when thrown into a category they are, three examples of this are: 18th Street, Mara Salvatrucha 13, and East Side Clover. This is why a lot of people get confused by street gang roleplayers on servers and sometimes rush to assume they aren't roleplaying the gang properly when it might just be that the gang has different hood politics on the outside than others. The thing I will point out is that whenever a gang member goes to prison, even if he doesn't claim to be a Sureño if his hood by right pays tribute to the Mexican Mafia then he will be considered a Sureño on the inside." Gang politics tend to be the most confusing part of gang roleplay, and even researching different things can take months if the information isn't on Google, and you need to use social media sites to find out the information for what you want to roleplay so I'll make your life ten times easier by saying this, and this alone... the most overdrawn part of Latino gang roleplay is the slang. A common misconception is the use of the words: "Ese/Esa/Vato/Holmes" etc, eg all old school terms used by Chicano gangs in the 80s and 90s. What I'll say right now is that it depends on the hood, you can argue it's the location but it's not even that... for example: a gang from West Los Angeles might talk like African-Americans and use Blood or Crip slang with their words, but another gang also from West Los Angeles could be so driven on Chicano culture and tradition that every second word you hear is "Ese", alright maybe that's an over-exaggeration but you get my point. The majority of East Los Angeles gangs still talk like this, but the reason I say it's hood related and not geographic related is that it all depends on the big homies of the hood... if a big homie is using blood slang then obviously his younger homies will use that too, the same goes for "Ese/Esa/Vato/Holmes". B) Another misconception is the color banging aspect of hood politics in Los Angeles. Now, I'll start off by saying that the majority of the gangs in Los Angeles couldn't care less if you rock red, blood, purple, orange, green, or hell... even pink. But there is still some hoods that will check you on it if you're flamed/blued up, but that depends on the hood and I won't really dive deep into that as this guide is for overall politics and not for "what gang wears that, this and the third woopty woop". Now, what I will say is there is a lot of red ragging Southsider hoods in Los Angeles, there are gangs that rock purple, green, etc. But color banging isn't popular, and never will be again, a recent thing that came into play in the late 90s early 2000s is clothing brand banging; hat banging, sports team banging, jewelry banging, etc. The reason I put hat banging into its own category and not sports team banging is not every hat donned by a gang member is a sport-related cap and it still may correlate to their hood. The sports team banging normally relates to a letter donned by the sports team and relates to the hood that dons the sports team, the hat banging is the same but it also might have for example: "WESTLAKE", "COMPTON", or "LYNWOOD" written on its front and a gang from any of those three areas may don that cap. Jewelry banging is the same, and a recent trend is where gang members who have money tend to get their hood names custom made for jewelry, or a letter relating to it. I'm not going to tell you how to roleplay your character around jewelry as this guide isn't for that, nor is it my place to do so but I'm just pointing out that it happens. Another thing with gang politics is the misconception that a "race war" is happening, although there may be tension between certain groups and ethnicities there has never been a "race war" and never will as that would get you a terrorism charge, if not something similar. Now, there are racist gang members but as for the misconception that entire hoods are racist, that's untrue. The only thing close to this would be if a big homie doesn't like a certain ethnicity and always talks about it, then his younger homies would more than likely fall victim to that and be influenced by it but even at that a lot of the times the negative big homies in hoods are normally overridden by positive big homies who set the younger homies' minds on a straight path to positivity and prosperity. IV. Tax-Free Gangs A) This will be split into two for the sole reason of me explaining Maravilla's in-depth and deeply confusing clique divide. Just as the title says, these do exist. Tax-free gangs are normally street gangs who don't pay tribute to the Mexican Mafia and are nine out of ten times greenlit, but not all of the times are they greenlit. Now, what I mean by this is for example: Maravilla in East Los Angeles. The gang itself is categorized as a tax-free street gang, but there are cliques who pay tribute to the Mexican Mafia and in return ended up in an internal feud within the Maravilla gang, now you might be confused and asking yourself: "What? That makes no sense, if they goto prison the tax-free clique would be able to fly under Eme for protection then!" Incorrect, that's not true, in fact when a Maravilla gang member goes to prison the same thing happens for them just like 18th Streeters, someone rings up someone on the outside and gets confirmation of who the person is and sometimes tattoos also give away their clique, and it's settled. Not to mention, most tax-free gang members tend to PC up anyways, also known as going into protective custody whilst serving your sentence. B) Now, to explain the situation with Maravilla you need to understand its roots... it's a street gang born on being tax-free and not wanting to bow down to the Mexican Mafia whilst also being proud of their Chicano heritage. Although some cliques do pay tribute to the Mexican Mafia, there's still quite a few who don't. I'm making this simple, but straight to the point so people aren't confused. This guide/information tab is liable to be updated at any point in time when it is I'll reply with a notification saying it's updated as it'll follow the modern-day Los Angeles gang politics on the street, and sometimes prison depending on the situation. Keep in mind, this guide is for Latino-American street gangs only, specifically the ones that are in Los Angeles so Bulldogs and Norteños won't really appear on this thread, so don't get mad or confused when there's nothing relating to those gangs or white or African-American or Asian gangs as I'm purely making this with my own knowledge from what I've been roleplaying for the last several years.