My Bloody Life : The Making of a Latin King

by Sanchez, Reymundo

• ISBN13: 9781556524271
• ISBN10: 1556524277
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Summary

Looking for an escape from childhood abuse, Reymundo Sanchez turned away from school and baseball to drugs, alcohol, and then sex, and was left to fend for himself before age 14. The Latin Kings, one of the largest and most notorious street gangs in America, became his refuge and his world, but its violence cost him friends, freedom, self-respect, and nearly his life. This is a raw and powerful odyssey through the ranks of the new mafia, where the only people more dangerous than rival gangs are members of your own gang, who in one breath will say they'll die for you and in the next will order your assassination.

Author Biography

Reymundo Sanchez is the pseudonym of a former Latin King who no longer lives in Chicago.

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
La Familia	1	(3)
Chicago	4	(4)
Humboldt Park	8	(7)
The Beatings Begin	15	(8)
The Spanish Lords	23	(9)
Murder in the 'Hood	32	(11)
My Teacher Maria	43	(8)
No Paradise	51	(2)
No Home	53	(3)
Jenny	56	(5)
Lords of Nothing	61	(6)
Chi-West	67	(7)
Coward	74	(5)
Can't Be Normal Even If I Tried	79	(7)
First Kill	86	(5)
The Acceptable Difference	91	(3)
Officer Friendly	94	(3)
China	97	(4)
Back to the Hunting Grounds	101	(3)
Betrayed into a Coma	104	(4)
Madness	108	(8)
Rosie	116	(2)
Convenient Agreement	118	(5)
My Girl	123	(5)
Prove Myself Worthy	128	(4)
Rape	132	(5)
Crowned	137	(14)
Violence Rules	151	(5)
Madman	156	(5)
Losing Maplewood Park	161	(6)
My Rosie	167	(8)
Down Brother	175	(11)
Poor Rosie	186	(3)
Juni	189	(6)
Loca	195	(4)
Morena, R.I.P.	199	(7)
NRA? Lucky's Death	206	(3)
Crazy Ways	209	(5)
Disciplined	214	(12)
No Lesson Learned	226	(6)
Spread the Violence	232	(5)
Enemies Near	237	(3)
Disowned	240	(4)
The Way It Is	244	(7)
Another Addiction	251	(11)
Close Call	262	(3)
The Law	265	(9)
Free?	274	(4)
Older Woman	278	(7)
Love Lost	285	(7)
Lesson Learned, Finally	292	(3)
Crownless	295	(3)
Tragedies Continue With or Without Me	298