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The Maravilla gangs are also the largest active gang with an estimated 10,000 members. HISTORY Maravilla gangs started to form during the mid-to-late 1940s, and continued to grow well into the 1950s and then on. The concept of protecting turf was expanded within the hoods known as Maravilla aka East Los Angeles, where the Maravilla gangs got their start. Competition for jobs, women and turf became issues for the youth that lived in this area. Eventually, rivalries began to exist between people living in different Maravilla hoods. If conflicts arose, however, they were handled within the community, not by outsiders (law enforcement). RIVALS War between Maravilla(not including the Perris MaraVilla) and Eme (The Mexican Mafia) over drug issue has been raging since the early 90s. Eme like Chuco Castro and Sana Ojeda, were sent forth to organize all Southern California neighborhoods under the Sureños flag. Part of the deal was that all Sureños had to raise taxes to Eme under penalty of death. Most neighborhoods fell into line and taxed in. Some did it happily, others grudgingly. But almost all of them got with the program. There were holdouts who basically told Eme no. Mara Salvatrucha was one of the first to declare themselves as a tax-free neighborhood and immediately felt the heat. Maravilla became the next tax-free neighborhoods. As result Eme declared these neighborhoods as "Always Verde" or the Green light, giving every Sureno the O.K to kill of any member of these neighborhoods. Now that the war was declared, Maravilla didn't do well in prison, there would always be fights and murders, as a result to that they segregated Maravilla and Sureños to their own modules. Some of the hardcore tax-free gangmembers decided to "get-even". Any Maravilla gangmember who volunteer to kill a Sureno became known as a Marafioso, a moniker of distinction, and to law enforcement were known as Maravillains. According to people connected with this scene, there were apparently 20 or so Marafioso currently formed up. This "get-even" gang within a gang is essentially a secret society whose members are known only to each other. Over time, over 20 East Side neighborhoods have contributed members to the Greenlight Gang's known as Maravilla. Some Maravilla sub-sets may have since formed an allegiance with the Mexican Mafia, while others remain independent. EXTERNAL LINKS
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