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Blood Ties - How a Texas Prison Gang Became a Mexican Cartel Proxy (Paperback)
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Blood Ties - How a Texas Prison Gang Became a Mexican Cartel Proxy (Paperback)
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In the late 1980s and 1990s, street gang members from the
impoverished Segundo Barrio in El Paso, Texas, united in the Texas
prison system to create the Barrio Aztecas gang. They quickly rose
to power in the Texas prison system and ultimately became a
powerful transnational criminal organization. Kolb describes the
prison dynamic of predator and prey and the need for the prey to
unify for protection against gangs such as the Texas Syndicate and
Texas Mexican Mafia, also known as the Mexikanemi. The protective
cocoon formed by this group soon morphed into a criminal enterprise
that would be headquartered in the Coffield Unit of the Texas
Department of Criminal Justice, where the gang would engage in drug
sales and violent crimes while behind bars. The skill sets they
acquired served members well as they were released from custody and
went on to exploit US immigration policies as well as friends and
familial ties in Ciudad JuArez, Mexico. There they established
alliances with regional drug trafficking organizations such as
Vicente Carrillo Fuentes (Juarez cartel), to whom they would serve
as foot soldiers in the proxy war that would consume Ciudad JuArez
and turn it into the "Murder Capital of the World." Blood Ties
describes the Azteca's organizational structure and ranks,
identifying characteristics such as tattoos and code words, and how
the organization appropriated Aztec culture to form the basis for
their identity. Some of the gang's most horrific crimes are
revealed here, and the author explores how Azteca's leadership was
eroded through the violation of the very tenets that served as the
gang's foundation.
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