About UsThe Mexican Mafia (Spanish: Mafia Mexicana), also known as La Eme (Spanish for "the M"), is a highly organized Mexican American criminal organization in the United States.[1][4] Despite its name, the Mexican Mafia did not originate in Mexico and is entirely a U.S. criminal prison organization. Sureños, including MS-13 and Florencia 13,[17] use the number 13 to show allegiance to the Mexican Mafia. M is the 13th letter of the alphabet. Law enforcement officials report that La eMe is the most powerful gang within the California prison system.[18] Government officials state that there are currently 155–300 official members of the Mexican Mafia with around 990 associates who assist La eMe in carrying out its illegal activities in the hopes of becoming full members.[7]
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Structure |
The structure or ranking system of the Mexican Mafia all begins with the foot soldiers these are the surenos who come in from the street and fufill the orders of the Mafia. Surenos are pivotal to the success of the Mafia as these are the men who will do the hits and fill in after a shot caller is taken away into SHU. La Mesa or the table in English is the shotcallers for La EME these are the guys you see in the documentaries, almost any move the surenos make on the yard can be traced back to a order from someone in the mesa. Most members of La mesa are serving extremely long or life sentences in prison because of the crimes they did for the mafia.
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Our History |
The Mexican Mafia (La EME) has been formed in 1957 at the Deuel Vocational Institution (California Youth Authority Facility). It has become of influence in the late 60's of the 20th century after the roots of ideology and propaganda were spread in different California State Prisons (especially San Quentin). The Mexican Mafia developed into a massive prison gang with high respect and reputation on the streets of Los Angeles soon enough and nowadays it controls and regulates a lot of street gangs located and founded in South California (hence the word 'sureno', translated Southerner from Hispanic).
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