Mario's Mexican Mafia!HQ

The Mexican Mafia was formed in 1957 by Chicano street gang members incarcerated at the Deuel Vocational Institution, a state prison located in Tracy, California.[10] The founder of the gang was Luis "Huero Buff" Flores, who was previously a member of the Hawaiian Gardens gang.[12] According to Tony Rafael, By the time that Luis Flores got his brainstorm idea about creating , as it was first called, gang warfare between Hispanic neighborhoods had become an established fact. Rivalries were then set in stone; gangs like White Fence, San Fer, Avenues, Clanton, Varrio Nuevo Estrada, and Hoyo Maravilla were already into their second decade and firmly established as self sustaining entities... Given such deep street rivalries, it was a marvel that Luis Flores ever got so far as to suggest that inmates who were enemies on the streets should abandon their animosity when they hit the prisons. But he did and it worked.[13] Luis Flores initially recruited violent members to the gang, in an