Vatos Locos

	Vatos Locos Vatos Locos is a Chicano slang term that means "crazy Dudes". It is also used as the name of multiple small gangs around the USA, Canada and Mexico. Many "Vatos Locos" use the colors red, black, green or brown. The film ''Blood In Blood Out'' (1993) which was written by poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, is based on the experiences of gang members of a fictional gang called Vatos Locos. The video game '' Call of Juarez: The Cartel'' features a fictional Vatos Locos gang. See also List of gangs in Mexico Notable criminally-active gangs in Mexico include: Beltrán-Leyva Cartel * Gulf Cartel Juárez Cartel Los Ántrax Los Negros Los Zetas Sinaloa Cartel Sonora Cartel Border Brothers Paisas Mexican Mafia Sureños, US-Mexican gang N ... References Gangs in Los Angeles Hispanic-American gangs Latino street gangs {{Chicano-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Chicano Chicano or Chicana is a chosen identity for many Mexican Americans in the United States. The label ''Chicano'' is sometimes used interchangeably with ''Mexican American'', although the terms have different meanings. While Mexican-American identity was related to encouraging assimilation into White American society and separating the community from the African-American political struggle, Chicano identity emerged among anti-assimilationist youth. Some belonged to the Pachuco subculture, and claimed the term (which had previously been a classist and racist slur). The term ''Chicano'' was widely reclaimed by ethnic Mexicans in the 1960s and 1970s to express political empowerment, ethnic solidarity, and pride in being of Indigenous descent (with many using the Nahuatl language), diverging from the more assimilationist ''Mexican American'' term. Chicano Movement leaders collaborated with Black Power movement. Chicano youth in ''barrios'' rejected cultural assimilation into whit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Blood In Blood Out ''Blood In Blood Out'' (also known as ''Bound by Honor'' and ''Blood In Blood Out: Bound By Honor'') is a 1993 American epic crime drama film directed by Taylor Hackford that has become a cult-classic film with a cult following among the Mexican-American community, over the decades. It follows the intertwining lives of three Chicano relatives from 1972 to 1984. They start out as members of a street gang in East Los Angeles, and as dramatic incidents occur, their lives and friendships are forever changed. ''Blood In Blood Out'' was filmed in 1991 throughout the Spanish-speaking areas of Los Angeles and inside California's San Quentin State Prison. Plot In 1972, Miklo Velka is the 17-year-old son of a Mexican mother and a white father. After a violent confrontation with his abusive racist father, Miklo leaves Las Vegas for East Los Angeles, where he stays with his cousins, Paco and Cruz. His cousins are in the local Vatos Locos gang, and Miklo earns his membership during an at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Jimmy Santiago Baca Jimmy Santiago Baca (born January 2, 1952) is an American poet, memoirist, and screenwriter from New Mexico. Early life and education Baca was born in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in 1952. Abandoned by his parents at the age of two, he lived with one of his grandmothers for several years before being placed in an orphanage. At the age of 13 he ran away and wound up living on the streets. When he was 21, he was convicted on charges of drug possession and incarcerated. He served five years in prison, three of them in isolation, and having expressed a desire to go to school (the guards considered this dangerous), he was put in the same area of the prison with the inmates on death row for a period of time before he was released. During this time, Baca taught himself to read and write, and he began to compose poetry. He sold these poems to fellow inmates in exchange for cigarettes. A fellow inmate convinced him to submit some of his poems to the magazine ''Mother Jones'', then edit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Cartel ''The Cartel'' is a 2009 American documentary film by New Jersey-based television producer, reporter and news anchor Bob Bowdon, that covers the failures of public education in the United States by focusing on New Jersey, which has the highest level of per-student education spending in the U.S. According to The Internet Movie Database (IMDb), the film asks: "How has the richest and most innovative society on earth suddenly lost the ability to teach its children at a level that other modern countries consider 'basic'?" The film regards teachers' unions as the cause of the problems (they are "the cartel" of the title), due to, among other things, the obstacles they put in place to firing bad teachers, through tenure. It also makes the case for school vouchers and charter schools, suggesting that the increased competition will revitalize the school system, leading to improved efficiency and performance in all schools, both district and charter. The film debuted at the Hoboken Interna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	List Of Gangs In Mexico Notable criminally-active gangs in Mexico include: * Beltrán-Leyva Cartel * Gulf Cartel Juárez Cartel Los Ántrax Los Negros Los Zetas Sinaloa Cartel Sonora Cartel Border Brothers Paisas Mexican Mafia Sureños, US-Mexican gang Nuestra Familia Nortenos, US-Mexican gang Tijuana Cartel See also List of gangs in the United States * Gangs in Australia * Gangs in Canada * Gangs in the United Kingdom * Gangs in New Zealand {{Gangs Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Gangs In Los Angeles This is a list of notable criminal gangs in Los Angeles, California. The County and the City of Los Angeles has been nicknamed the "Gang Capital of America," with an estimated 450 active gangs with a combined membership of more than 45,000. Gangs * Abergil Crime Family * Avenue Kings Familia Bahala Na Gang Black Guerrilla Family Bloods Black P. Stones Bounty Hunter Bloods Pirus * Inglewood Family Bloods Crips * 8Trey Gangster Crips Asian Boyz Grape Street Watts Crips 30 Strong Santa Monica Rollin 60's Neighborhood Crips Sons of Samoa Tongan Crip Gang Venice Shoreline Crips Compton Executioners *Lynwood Vikings Los Angeles crime family Peckerwood Aryan Brotherhood Nazi Lowriders * Public Enemy No. 1 * Satanas Sarzana Sinaloa Cartel Mexican Mafia Sureños 18th Street gang * 38th Street gang The Avenues Armenian Power South Los 13 Azusa 13 Barriox13 Barrio Mojados Culver City Boys 13 El Monte Flores 13 Florenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Hispanic-American Gangs Gangs in the United States include several types of groups, including national street gangs, local street gangs, prison gangs, motorcycle clubs, and ethnic and organized crime gangs.. Approximately 1.4 million people were part of gangs as of 2011, and more than 33,000 gangs were active in the United States.. Many American gangs began, and still exist, in urban areas. In many cases, national street gangs originated in major cities such as New York City and Chicago but they later grew in other American cities like Albuquerque and Washington, D.C. History The earliest American street gangs emerged at the end of the American Revolutionary War in the early 1780s.. However, these early street gangs had questionable legitimacy, and more serious gangs did not form until at least the early 1800s. The earliest of these serious gangs formed in northeastern American cities, particularly in New York.. Early street gangs in the Northeast: 1780–1870 Three main immigrant groups enter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]