Blood Ties : How a Texas Prison Gang Became a Mexican Cartel Proxy /

"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 organizati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kolb, Joseph (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Fort Worth, Texas : TCU Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Barrio Aztecas (Gang) > History.
Violent crimes.
Prison gangs.
Mexican American gangs.
Mexican American criminals.
Drug traffic.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Violent crimes > Mexican-American Border Region.
Drug traffic > Mexican-American Border Region.
Mexican American criminals > Mexico > Ciudad Juárez.
Mexican American gangs > History.
Prison gangs > Texas > El Paso > History > 20th century.
Texas > El Paso.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region.
Mexico > Ciudad Juárez.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Mi Barrio
  • Coffield
  • Staking Their Claim
  • CERESO Prison
  • Crossing the Line
  • Deadly Marriage
  • War Footing
  • Death of a City
  • Matanza
  • Americans in the Crosshairs
  • Insurgency
  • Transitions.

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