The Black Hand by Chris Blatchford

Author:Chris Blatchford [Blatchford, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction
ISBN: 9780061257292
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2008-09-22T14:00:00+00:00

Photographic Insert

Rene “Boxer” Enriquez at Wasco State Prison in 1997 (in transit from Pelican Bay to the

Mafia RICO trial in Los Angeles) with the Black Hand tattoo prominently displayed on

his chest as an advertisement to other inmates that he is a member of the Mexican Mafia.

The word “ARTA” on his stomach is short for his original street gang, Artesia 13.

Rene at the age of about fourteen had already

been jumped into Artesia 13 despite warnings

from his father to “stay away from those

hoodlums.” By this age he was a hard-core

user of PCP, had a lucrative business selling

the drug to other junior high students, and

often woke up in a drug-induced haze.

John (Rene’s little brother), Rene at

age eight, and Rene’s nephew Albert

Provencio together at their grandmother’s

house in Boyle Heights, a neighborhood

east of downtown Los Angeles that is

heavily influenced by a large street gang

called White Fence.

Lupe and John Enriquez, Rene’s parents,

Rene and his mother, Lupe, in 1985

in 1974, in a warm moment during their

during a visit at California’s Folsom

fifteenth year of a stormy marriage.

Prison shortly after Rene became a

member of the Mexican Mafia, also

known as La Eme.

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