Mexican Prison Gang

== Description==
The Mexican Prison Gang, officially known as Nombre de Pandilla, is a reoccurring group in the Skin Man Universe, usually depicted as a support for Skinman as he tries to escape prison in the Skin Man Book Series.
==Appearances==
===Skin Man Book Series===
The Mexican Prison Gang make their first appearance at the end of Skin Man 1. They meet Skinman for the first time in Alcatraz after he was sent to prison for killing a child. Skinman makes a plan to help them escape before being stopped by Evil Man, and then left behind by Skin Man in the next book. They make their second appearance two books later in Skin Man 4, saving Skinman from a police officer, before again disappearing after the time jump in Skin Man 4.
=== Better Holy Bible===
The Mexican Prison Gang also shows up for a short while in the Better Holy Bible. Here they act as antagonists led by Hombre de Piel and their base located at Alcatraz, both in contrast to the Pre-S.U.R.W. Universe. In the book they are described as a very dangerous gang, and they kidnap Jesus and stop him from flying away from Alcatraz.
== Individuals ==
Excluding Skinman, there are five members of the Mexican Prison Gang, all with their own names and backstories, the following are their respective descriptions. Any boxes not filled out in their character box should be in the character box for the gang at large.
===Diego===
Diego Rodriguez is the youngest child of Maria and Alejandro Rodriguez and the younger brother of Pablo Rodriguez. Born and raised in Tijuana, Mexico, Diego grew up in fear of homicide, and after the death of his older brother, Roberto, his eldest brother, Pablo, decided that they needed to get out of Mexico. In August of 1990, Diego celebrated his 8th birthday woken up in the middle of the night by his brother to hop over the border into San Diego. Growing up into his adolescence, he ran a weed chain with his brother. Still, eventually, the business got messy, culminating in the kidnapping of a young Gustavo and Diego having to kill a man. This led to an argument between him and his brother and at the age of 15 Diego took his brother's car and left to move up north.
He stayed in Los Angeles for a few years. Eventually, some cops found a correlation between "his" car and the one used by now well-known drug-kingpin Pablo Rodriguez, forcing him to walk for many months to get away, going from town to town, living off of small barely paying jobs, until eventually settling down in San Francisco a the age of 18. But after running for so long his past eventually caught up to him, and he was locked up in Alcatraz in the same room as his brother, who had been caught a year before.
At first, Diego was not happy to see his brother again, nor interested in joining his Mexican Prison Gang of buddies he had made in his past business as well as people he found in the prison. But on his 19th birthday, after a long chat with his brother one night, he gave in and they shared a hug after 4 years of being separated, and then joined the gang.
===Juan===
Juan Torres was born and raised in the small city of Cancun, Mexico. The small and hostile town it was, he spent most of his free time outside the town. He hung out with his friends most of the time, smoking weed or other drugs if they could find the right man for the job. Eventually, this group of friends and their connections to drug dealers led to them becoming the bodyguards and hitmen of a cocaine dealer named Gutierre Blaco at the ripe age of 17.
Over their 4 years of work, the gang killed 43 Mexican Citizens and racked up millions of dollars. It all came apart in 1998, they had been chased around by the police for quite some time now and made a plan to escape to Cuba, stowed away in a cargo shipment with help from the ship's captain. But the captain's deal was a setup and the police were ready to take the gang. But Juan managed to escape, jumping overboard in hopes he could get away and swim back to shore, but he was swept away and lost at sea. He was found passed out, floating in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, picked up by a Floridian cruiser. When handed to the cops, the Florida police called higher officials. When said officials learned who he was, instead of sending him back to Mexico, they sent him to Alcatraz to claim any prize money for his arrest to be given to the U.S. government.
For the next year, Juan made friends with fellow prisoner Antonio Diaz and formed the basis of a small gang. It was in his second year he met Pablo Rodriguez and José Cruz, past business partners of Antonio. Because of Antonio's past relation to them, they all made friends easily, and formed a proper Mexican Prison Gang, and later on they added Pablo's younger brother Diego as well. Being the only member to not speak English, he isn't the one talking most of the time in the books, but with his past gang-leading skills, he's an essential member of the group.
===Pablo===
Pablo Rodriguez, born on July 14, 1975, in Ensenada, Mexico, is the eldest son of Maria and Alejandro Rodriguez. Following the birth of his brother Roberto in 1978, the family faced financial difficulties, prompting Pablo's father, Alejandro, to relocate the family to Tijuana with the hope of eventually moving to the U.S. Instead, this brought the family into danger of homicide within the town, drove them bankrupt, and made Alejandro work for a drug cartel. Despite being young, Pablo and Roberto were dragged into their father's cartel business, which eventually led to Roberto being killed in 1990. Devastated, fed up with his father, and worried for his youngest brother Diego's safety, Pablo decided for the two of them to flee to the U.S. in the dead of night on Diego's 8th birthday, leaving their parents and past behind.
In the U.S., Pablo found that he and Diego didn't have enough money to keep themselves afloat. This eventually led them to start a marijuana business, because whether he liked it or not, Pablo's past made him good at gang business. The business was successful for many years until one of their trips to an Amish settlement in Pawnee City, Nebraska, led to the kidnapping of a young boy named Gustavo who saw the transaction. Despite Pablo's original plans, Diego talked him into bringing Gustavo into the gang. But the Amish weren't happy about these developments, and in the following weeks, they started to make crude weaponry, with wood planks, nails, and rope, vaguely resembling modern guns. The Amish attacked Pablo's gang going into the winter of 1997, resulting in many deaths but was ultimately won by Pablo's gang. After a long argument with Diego about the battle, deaths, and Gustavo, Diego stole Pablo's car and left the gang.
After Diego left, Pablo appointed José Cruz to be his new right-hand-man, and kept the business going for a little over a year afterward. During that time he became a famous drug kingpin, which attracted the attention of law enforcement, and in 1999 he and José were captured and taken to Alcatraz. In Alcatraz, Pablo and José met an old business partner Antonio Diaz, and his friend Juan Torres, forming a Mexican Prison Gang. A year later, Pablo got a new cellmate, none other than his brother Diego. The two avoided each other for a while, but on Diego's birthday, Pablo opened up to him and apologized, they hugged, and Diego joined the gang.
===José===
José Cruz was born on March 27, 1975, in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, the single child of a Mexican drug lord by the name of Andrés "Polvador" Cruz and his wife, Josefina Cruz. Almost immediately, he fell into the Polvador business, with his earliest memories being working for his father's gang as a messenger and later as a loan shark and drug trafficker. He was trained to be quick-thinking, strong, and self-sufficient, and throughout his upbringing, he used those teachings in his work for his father. He quickly rose to the top of the rankings in the family cartel, being especially useful as the muscle on missions due to his strength and reaction time. He did this all before he reached 15.
As a part of the business, his family crossed the U.S. border a lot. He was only born in Ciudad Juárez because his parents were in town while on a trip to export 10000lbs of cocaine over to the U.S. It was because this trade with the U.S. that José learned to speak English. It was also because of this trade were things came crashing down for the Polvador Gang. They had recently found a good deal with a group based in Arizona called the Phoenix Ashes, making imports, and exports, and things went swimmingly until Los Polvadores' supply could no longer meet the demand of the group. On their last supply run to the U.S. in 1992, the Ashes jumped José, his father, and most other important people of the gang, and lined them up to be shot one by one. José's father was the first to go, followed by his mother; relatives; and friends; but before they could get to him, he made a run for it into the cold desert night unscathed.
He wandered the desert as long as he could, getting as far away as he could, hiding at any sign of a human with worry the Phoenix Ashes might find him. Eventually, he couldn't keep moving and passed out. When he woke up, he found himself in the care of a new drug lord operating in the Southern U.S., Pablo Rodriguez. This would become the start of a very long friendship and partnership between the two that would last many years as José joined Pablo's gang. During that time, they take out many competitors, including a massacre on the Phoenix Ashes, José would become Pablo's right had man, and the two leaders would be captured an go to Alcatraz, where they would start a Mexican Prison Gang inside.
Antonio Díaz
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