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| The Mexican Mafia | 
 enlarge | Author: Tony Rafael
Publisher: Encounter Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (12 reviews)
Sales Rank: 21943
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 250
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.5
ISBN: 1594031959
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.1060979494
EAN: 9781594031953
ASIN: 1594031959
Publication Date: July 25, 2007
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Product Description
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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 Excellent Book October 6, 2008
I really like the book, i was not expecting to read about the trails but overall it was a good book. I read the bood in a week and i would read it again.
 The Bad and the Ugly Detailed September 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"The Mexican Mafia", Tony Rafael, NY, Encounter Books, 2007, ISBN: -13: 978-1-5 9403-195-3-, HC, 362 (372) pgs. Includes Introd. 6 pg., Contents 1 pg., & Prologue 4 pg., & chart of 37 Eme members, associates, workers, etc., & Index 10 pgs. 9 1/4" x 6 1/2".
A writer based in Los Angeles with a decade of active gangland researching via live interviews with gang members gives his revealing accounting of the history of Hispanic gangs, the Mexican Mafia, and the methodology used by law in securing convictions for murder, thievery and drug sales.
The author gives a skillful chronicle of the rise of the Hispanic Gangs and the formation of the Mexican Mafia in Los Angeles and how the initial attempts to suppress gang activity actually led to its dispersion throughout the penal system. We are introduced to the lifestyle of the gangs, their activities including the names of the more prominent gangs in Greater Los Angeles, as the "Avenues" of Highland Park, a collection of 2nd and 3rds generation Mexicans.
We learn, for example that Mexican Mafia, La Mafia Mexicana, or simply "Eme" (Spanish pronunciation of the letter "M"), was the brain-child of Luis "Huero" Buff Flores, member of the Hawaiian Gardens (California) Street Gang, in 1957. His idea was to create a "super gang" of institutionalized criminal inmates within the California Department of Corrections, beginning with Deuel Vocational Institution (DVI) in Tracy, CA where new inmates are sent for evaluation before final disposition for incarceration. Strict rules were made and membership involved "blood in" and "blood out", hierarchy of rules on "signing", tattoos, drug running and collecting taxes, pimping, homosexuality, doing drugs, etc. and those "green lighting" rules on executing others as for 'ratting', etc.
Missing, unfortunately, are several simple inveiglements that would have added much clarity to the book such as maps of the gangs' territories and depicting those zones where many of the murders took place. There is too much redundancy and wordiness in the later chapters that should have been easily deleted without injuring the story, suggesting an inconvenient "rush to publish". For anyone and everyone interested in gangs and gangsters, this is a basic book deserving to be read which profiles the ever successful attempts of the gangster Mexicans, many illegals, to terrorize American citizens and plunder their own, both within and outside of the penal correctional facilities.
 No Stars January 27, 2008
1 out of 14 found this review helpful
This book was GARBAGE. I thought it was going to be like Machine Gun Mundos' book (Mexican Mafia), but, was not! Very disappointing.
This guy is obsessed with The Avenues targeting Blacks.
Well, Sr. Rafael: Get your facts straight! Why didn't you write anything about blacks targeting Mexicans? This has been going on for years, and I don't see the Media/books saying anything about this.
And what the hell does this have to with IMMIGRATION? Jesus Christ, no wonder there is a green light on this guy (good).
A well researched and investigated book January 15, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
A well researched and investigated book. If you want to learn about the Mexican Mafia then read this book. Although it is a little too cop/prosecutor orientated it is still good- you just have to skip the cop parts to get to the good gangster stuff. But not a bad read by any means. I would like to see something from Tony Rapheal with more gangster profiles. I know he has it in him. Check out his blog, In the hat.
multiple-defendant homicide case December 31, 2007
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
Well researched,deals mainly with small crew on trial for homicide.Detailed account of their exploits,fair amount of history coverd. One of the better books on la Eme.
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