Post by AlonzoFrm18st on Jun 24, 2021 13:18:16 GMT -5
18st Gang Overview
The Barrio 18, also known by the nicknames Mara 18, La 18 or 18th Street Gang is a large Mexican & Central American street gang that was originally founded by Chicano & Honduran street gang members in the Koreatown area of Los Santos in the mid to late 1950s. The Mexican American street gang members in question identified as Chicanos and were disaffected members of a local Sureño street gang, the Clantone 14 gang. These disaffected members of the Barrio 18 gang left Clantone 14 when the latter refused to allow Central American immigrants into their street gang in favour of keeping their membership based strictly towards Mexican Americans and the Chicano subculture. These events led to the formation of the Barrio 18 gang and the longstanding rivalry with Clantone 14 that still exists today.
The creation of the 18th Street gang was not accepted by other Sureño street gang sets or Maravilla street gang sets within Little Seoul, South Central and East Los Santos. Thus, throughout the remainder of the 1960s and most of the 1970s, it was engaged in street gang warfare in the streets in order to establish itself within the city. In order to bolster its rank and file, it pursued its policy of recruiting Latin American immigrants and non-Latinos throughout the 1970s. This policy of recruiting Latin American immigrants and non-Latinos effectively made the 18th Street Gang one of the first large multiracial and multi-ethnic street gangs in all of Los Santos. Come the mid 1970s, the 18th Street gang were well on their way to becoming entrenched within the street gang underworld of Los Santos and by the turn of the decade, this aim had been accomplished. In 1978 and 1979, its presence in Murietta Valley, South Central Los Santos and Western Los Santos was officially noted by the police.
The Barrio 18 saw a vast influx of Central Americans joining up with its rank and file in the 1980s through to the 1990s. These Central Americans primarily came to the Latino American and African American slums of West Los, South Central and East Los Santos from the countries of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras though a considerable amount came from Nicaragua. These Central American war refugees and socioeconomic immigrants mostly either joined with the Barrio 18 gang or the newly formed Mara Salvatrucha, though a minority of them joined the Sureños and Maravilla despite the latter two being reluctant to accept them. The barbaric nature of the proxy wars and civil wars in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua created brutal street gang warfare in the streets of Los Santos and helped both the 18th Street Gang and the Mara Salvatrucha attain their high level of notoriety for barbarism that they're so well known for today.
OOC Info
If you want to join 18th Street you got to find us ingame and hang around us a lot
We take roleplay seriously and two moves of fail roleplay you will be kicked from the faction.
The Barrio 18, also known by the nicknames Mara 18, La 18 or 18th Street Gang is a large Mexican & Central American street gang that was originally founded by Chicano & Honduran street gang members in the Koreatown area of Los Santos in the mid to late 1950s. The Mexican American street gang members in question identified as Chicanos and were disaffected members of a local Sureño street gang, the Clantone 14 gang. These disaffected members of the Barrio 18 gang left Clantone 14 when the latter refused to allow Central American immigrants into their street gang in favour of keeping their membership based strictly towards Mexican Americans and the Chicano subculture. These events led to the formation of the Barrio 18 gang and the longstanding rivalry with Clantone 14 that still exists today.
The creation of the 18th Street gang was not accepted by other Sureño street gang sets or Maravilla street gang sets within Little Seoul, South Central and East Los Santos. Thus, throughout the remainder of the 1960s and most of the 1970s, it was engaged in street gang warfare in the streets in order to establish itself within the city. In order to bolster its rank and file, it pursued its policy of recruiting Latin American immigrants and non-Latinos throughout the 1970s. This policy of recruiting Latin American immigrants and non-Latinos effectively made the 18th Street Gang one of the first large multiracial and multi-ethnic street gangs in all of Los Santos. Come the mid 1970s, the 18th Street gang were well on their way to becoming entrenched within the street gang underworld of Los Santos and by the turn of the decade, this aim had been accomplished. In 1978 and 1979, its presence in Murietta Valley, South Central Los Santos and Western Los Santos was officially noted by the police.
The Barrio 18 saw a vast influx of Central Americans joining up with its rank and file in the 1980s through to the 1990s. These Central Americans primarily came to the Latino American and African American slums of West Los, South Central and East Los Santos from the countries of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras though a considerable amount came from Nicaragua. These Central American war refugees and socioeconomic immigrants mostly either joined with the Barrio 18 gang or the newly formed Mara Salvatrucha, though a minority of them joined the Sureños and Maravilla despite the latter two being reluctant to accept them. The barbaric nature of the proxy wars and civil wars in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua created brutal street gang warfare in the streets of Los Santos and helped both the 18th Street Gang and the Mara Salvatrucha attain their high level of notoriety for barbarism that they're so well known for today.
OOC Info
If you want to join 18th Street you got to find us ingame and hang around us a lot
We take roleplay seriously and two moves of fail roleplay you will be kicked from the faction.