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Barrio Azteca (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbarjo asˈteka]), or Los Aztecas (pronounced [los asˈtekas]), is a Mexican-American street and prison gang originally based in El Paso, Texas, USA and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. [3]
Designated as a National Register Historic District in 2003, [3] El Azteca is distinctive for its setting, layout and landscape features. The neighborhood is situated on a high bluff overlooking the Rio Grande which not only forms its southern boundary, but designates the international boundary between the United States and Mexico.
In 2005, an informant and former Barrio Azteca lieutenant testified that Ravelo told him to help find fellow gang members who had stolen from the cartel. The informant testified that later he was taken to a house in El Paso, Texas, where a gang member's mouth, wrists and ankles were bound with duct tape. He was delivered to the Juarez cartel ...
The Barrio Azteca, whose members are known as Aztecas, was formed in the Texas prison system and operates on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Vargas and five other inmates are being charged ...
A reputed Barrio Azteca gang member was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison on drug charges, court records show.
An inmate was stabbed in the eye, strangled and beaten to death at an El Paso jail because of his alleged ties to the Barrio Azteca gang, records state.
Jesus Alberto Barron-Lavin, a 42-year-old Mexican national and member of the gang Barrio Azteca, was taken into custody by ICE agents in El Paso, Texas.
The Juárez Cartel relies on two enforcement gangs to exercise control over both sides of the border: La Linea, a group of corrupt (current and former) Chihuahua police officers, is prevalent on the Mexican side, while the Barrio Azteca street gang operates in Mexico and in Texan cities such as El Paso, Dallas, and Houston, as well as in New ...