Word: ysmael
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...styles. Scholars trace Hispanic gangs back to the 1920s, when Roman Catholic parishes organized social clubs for children who felt unwelcome at white high school dances. Despite drive-by shootings and drug trafficking, the gangs were tolerated as a "community" issue for half a century. Explains former teen gangster Ysmael Pereira, 48, who is now a gang counselor: "The code was always to keep it quiet...
...with Los Ninos ("The Boys") but the great problem was what The Boys were going to do next. There was no leader; every member of the Directorio Estiidiantil had an equal voice. The nearest approach to leaders seemed to be a wild-eyed pair known as Santiago Alvarez and Ysmael Seijas who handed out Springfields and automatic rifles to other shirt-sleeved students, formed a most irregular militia...
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