Thursday, April 16, 2009

Gangs Honor Dead With Caps, Crosses

"A baseball cap dangles from a cement cross. The slogan on the hat reads "power, money, respect." On the brim there's the logo of the classic gangster movie "Scarface." Etched on the gravestone, the words: "Jesus Guadalupe Parra. 12 December 1986 to 25 August 2008." "Lupito," as friends and family knew him, went down in a hail of bullets alongside three others in a gunfight with a rival drug gang in Mexico. "

[Rest of article HERE]

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