GANGS: Two illuminating Mexican Mafia Tales
GANGS: Two illuminating Mexican Mafia Tales
By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog In the last week, there’ve been two stories that illuminate the world of the Mexican Mafia prison gang and its influence on the streets […]
PRISONS: A Call to End Racial Warring
By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog A group of inmates in California’s maximum security lockups — Pelican Bay, Corcoran and Tehachapi — are calling for an end to the racial warring […]
I Was A Deaf Thug And Now I Play One On TV (video)
By Carlos Aguilar, Current TV From deaf gangster to Hollywood gang-star, actor Gabriel Martinez shares his unique life growing up hard-of-hearing in the ‘hood. Once a lost and mischievous youth […]
I Don’t Want To Be The Model Minority For The American Dream
I’m tired of having to explain to white folks that many people in my working class Mexican community cannot persevere no matter how hard they may try. I’m often met […]
In Juarez the Prison Inmates Run the Asylum
By Melissa del Bosque On Monday, July 25, there was a riot in the Cereso state prison in Juarez and 17 people were killed. The prison is divided between the […]
Looking For The Last Place In Monterrey That’s Safe
By Wuicho Vargas McAllen, Texas — It has been more than three years, and the violence in Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas has not come to an end. It has gotten […]
Latino Gang Profiled African Americans In LA
The Azusa 13 gang in the San Gabriel Valley, east of LA, systematically targeted African-Americans in that community with the aim of running them out of town, according to a […]
