It is one of the largest and most powerful gangs in the entire region (Between ... into the area with the highest homicide rate in the world” according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Mainly comprised of Mexican-American males who previously belonged to a Southern California street gang, La Eme is a powerful California ... 1980's in Texas prisons and most members are Mexican ...

A police source told AFP the gunfights involved opposing factions of a gang called Los Tigerones, one of the most powerful in this ... squeezed between the world's biggest cocaine producers ...