The Mexican Mafia
Tony Rafael
Jul 2007 · Encounter Books
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It has been called the most dangerous gang in American history. In Los Angeles alone it is responsible for over 100 homicides per year. Although it has fewer than 300 members, it controls a 40,000-strong street army that is eager to advance its agenda. It waves the flag of the Black Hand and its business is murder. Although known on the streets for over fifty years, the Mexican Mafia has flown under the radar of public awareness and has flourished beneath a deep cover of secrecy. Members are forbidden even to acknowledge its existence. For the first time in its history, the Mexican Mafia is now getting the attention it has been striving to avoid. In this briskly written and thoroughly researched book, Tony Rafael looks at the birth and the blood-soaked growth of this criminal enterprise through the eyes of the victims, the dropouts, the cops and DAs on the front lines of the war against the Mexican Mafia. The first book ever published on the subject, Southern Soldiers is a pioneering work that unveils the operations of this California prison gang and describes how it grew from a small clique of inmates into a transnational criminal organization. As the first prison gang ever to project its power beyond prison walls, the Mexican Mafia controls virtually every Hispanic neighborhood in Southern California and is rapidly expanding its influence into the entire Southwest, across the East Coast, and even into Canada. Riding a wave of unchecked immigration and seemingly beyond the reach of law enforcement, the Mexican Mafia is poised to become the Cosa Nostra of twenty-first-century America.
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December 11, 2014
This book is such a joke. Anybody who knows anything knows these guys are only tuff in packs latin kings ms13 or jamaican shower posse way more vicious and worldwide. These guys are illegals who know they can commit crimes then run and hide like cowards. Thanks obama. Los Angeles is only 1 city nowhere on the east coast do they matter. They just get laughed at and used as punching bags.these are FACTS.
Angel Dopey Marquez Lst Mcs
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July 6, 2014
I only put 2 stars cause it has to do with my family but like it was stated in a prior comment talk to much and I know that its not 100 accurate tony talks on alot of things he knows nothing about he only goes by his own assumption and hearsay......
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alfredo rodriguez
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October 15, 2014
Having spent most of my life in California prisons I know all about the eme and yes they are ruthless but you guys put too much on it they ain't all that the Latin Kings mother land faction is just as ruthless and much more organized than both eme & nf
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About the author
TONY RAFAEL is a Los Angeles-based writer who has spent the last ten years researching street gangs. Living in the “ground zero” of the gang culture, he has interviewed scores of active and retired gang members and has been granted unprecedented access to active investigations and criminal trials.
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