A street gang with MBA order and Mafia cruelty.(USA)

From: The Christian Science Monitor | Date: March 3, 2003 | Copyright information

Byline: Kris Axtman Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

SAN MARCOS, TEXAS -- The full weight of who he had become hit him, startlingly, when he witnessed that one little grin. Inside a public housing project in San Antonio, Oscar Esparza says he watched the grin snake across the face of a fellow gang member who had just admitted killing one of his oldest and closest friends.

At that moment, Mr. Esparza realized he had joined a gang that was about far more than just kickin' back during the day and hitting clubs at night. "At first I thought he was just playing ...

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