The Mexican Mafia (Spanish: Mafia Mexicana), also known as La eMe (Spanish for "the M"), is a predominantly Mexican American prison gang and criminal organization in the United States. [1] [3] Despite its name, the Mexican Mafia has no origins in Mexico and is entirely a U.S. prison-based organization.

Apr 3, 2025 · As other prison gangs were founded about the same time period, the Mexican Mafia aligned itself with the Aryan Brotherhood against the Black Guerrilla Family and La Nuestra Familia. Members of the Mexican Mafia and the Aryan Brotherhood united in their shared antipathy for African Americans.

The Mexican Mafia, also known as La eMe (Spanish for the letter M) is an American originated mostly Mexican-American criminal organization and is one of the oldest and most powerful prison gangs in the United States.

Apr 27, 2022 · The OC Mexican Mafia, also known as La Eme, is a “gang of gangs” that controls and directs other Hispanic gangs operating in Southern California and within the California penal system.

Mexican Mafia ("La EME") One of the first prison gangs to develop in the United States, the Mexican Mafia began in 1957 in California where a few dozen Latino convicts banded together at Deuel Vocational Institution under the leadership of Luis 'Huero Bluff' Flores.

Jan 17, 2025 · La eMe was founded in Folsom State Prison. Thereafter, La eMe grew within the California and Federal prison systems, and today, La eMe exerts influence and control over various illegal activities both inside and outside of the prison systems.

Jan 16, 2007 · For the past five years, the respected writer and gang expert — who uses only the name he writes under in public because of his dangerous work — has been researching one of the deadliest gangs in America for a nonfiction book he’s writing on the Mexican Mafia, or “La Eme” (the Spanish word for the letter ‘M’), tentatively titled ...

Jul 24, 2007 · La EME (as the Mexican Mafia is commonly referred) was to be a prison super gang in which the leaders of their respective gangs could join together as allies and "carnales" (Spanish for brothers). Other names for the EME include the Black Hand, Los Carnales or Brothers, the Mob, and other euphemisms.

Jan 19, 2025 · A federal grand jury in California has dealt a significant blow to La eMe, the state's notorious Mexican Mafia, returning a six-count superseding indictment against six members and associates...

Feb 29, 2000 · The Mexican Mafia exerted a strong influence and control over Southern Cal­ifornia Hispanic street gangs in the early 1 990s. Between 1992 and 1993 La Eme orchestrated a series of mandatory meet­ings for the street gangs. The meetings were used to …