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Vatos Locos is a Chicano slang term that means "crazy Dudes". It is also used as the name of multiple small gangs around the USA, Canada and Mexico. Many "Vatos Locos" use the colors red, black, green, or brown.^{[citation needed]}

The film Blood In Blood Out (1993) which was written by poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, is based on the experiences of gang members of a fictional gang called Vatos Locos.^[1]

The video game Call of Juarez: The Cartel features a fictional Vatos Locos gang.^[2]

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^ Blood in, Blood out at IMDb
^ "Call of Juarez: The Cartel Trainer". Cheatbook Magazine. December 15, 2013. Retrieved June 17, 2019.

Organized crime groups in Los Angeles

African-American

Active	Bloods Black P. Stones Bounty Hunter Watts Bloods Cedar Block Piru Crenshaw Mafia Gangster Bloods Elm Street Piru Fruit Town Piru Mob Piru Pirus Tree Top Piru Crips Grape Street Watts Crips Kelly Park Compton Crips Nutty Blocc Compton Crips Rollin' 30s Harlem Crips Rollin' 60s Neighborhood Crips Rollin' 90s Neighborhood Crips South Side Compton Crips Venice Shoreline Crips

Deputy gangs

Active	Compton Executioners Lynwood Vikings

East and Southeast Asian

Active	14K Asian Boyz Bahala Na Gang‎ Satanas Tiny Rascal Gang Wah Ching
Inactive	Black Dragons

Hispanic and Latin American

Active	Mexican Mafia Sureños 18th Street gang 38th Street gang Avenues Azusa 13 Culver City Boys El Monte Flores Florencia 13 MS-13 Ontario Varrio Sur Playboys Puente 13 Santa Monica 13 Temple Street Toonerville Rifa 13 Varrio Nuevo Estrada Venice 13 Vineland Boys Westside Locos White Fence

Italian-American

Active	Chicago Outfit Colombo crime family Gambino crime family Genovese crime family Los Angeles crime family

Jewish-American

Inactive	Mickey Cohen Bugsy Siegel

Outlaw motorcycle gangs

Active	Chosen Few Diablos Devils Diciples Hells Angels Hessians Mongols Vagos
Inactive	Straight Satans

Polynesian

Active	Sons of Samoa Tongan Crip Gang

West Asian

Active	Armenian mafia Armenian Power Israeli mafia Abergil crime family

White American

Inactive	FFF Wonderland Gang

White Supremacist

Active	Aryan Brotherhood Nazi Lowriders Public Enemy No. 1

Events

See also: List of criminal gangs in Los Angeles; Organized crime groups in the United States

v t e Organized crime groups in the Americas
Argentina	Ashkenazum Puccio family Zwi Migdal
Bolivia	Chapare Cartel La Corporación Santa Cruz Cartel
Brazil	Amigos dos Amigos Brazilian police militias Carecas do ABC Comando Vermelho Família do Norte Guardiões do Estado Primeiro Comando da Capital Terceiro Comando Terceiro Comando Puro Zwi Migdal
Canada	See: Organized crime groups in Canada
Caribbean	Belizean gangs No Limit Soldiers (Curaçao) Zoe Pound (Haiti) Revolutionary Forces of the G9 Family and Allies (Haiti) Jamaican posse Shower Posse Yardies
Colombia	Black Eagles Bloque Meta Cali Cartel Clan del Golfo Libertadores del Vichada Medellín Cartel The Extraditables Muerte a Secuestradores Los Priscos Norte del Valle Cartel North Coast Cartel Oficina de Envigado Los Rastrojos Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC dissidents United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia
El Salvador	Texis Cartel
Mexico	La Barredora Beltrán-Leyva Organization Los Mazatlecos Los Negros Colima Cartel La Familia Michoacana Guadalajara Cartel Gulf Cartel Los Metros Los Pelones Los Rojos Independent Cartel of Acapulco Jalisco New Generation Cartel Juárez Cartel La Línea Knights Templar Cartel Milenio Cartel Oaxaca Cartel Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel Sinaloa Cartel Los Ántrax Artistas Asesinos Gente Nueva Los Mexicles La Resistencia Sonora Cartel South Pacific Cartel Tijuana Cartel Los Viagras Los Zetas
United States	See: Organized crime groups in the United States
Venezuela	Cartel of the Suns Tren de Aragua
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