Aztecas

## OG Member(s)

### OG Member 1

Niko Petrovic, Juan Barrios, Alfredo Reyes, Clay, Dominic Reyes, Jack Mcawk, Artemis Pike, Cash Money, Richard Twist, James Dylan, Jack A Roo, Jason Nesci, Dominique Riley-Smith , Juanito, Baby Face, Joe Knutson, Dr Phil, Alex Wang , Colt Simmons, Avery James, Ashley Harper, Geoff Mann, Shotti Guerado, Sunday Best, Blake Jackson, Johnny Savage, Teresa Palmero, Phoenix Moore, Alisin Moore

## WL Server Equivalent

### WL Server Gang

(No affiliate connections to WL members)* Aztecas

## General Description

The Azteca cartel, led by Carlos El Demonio, Gabriel Navarro and Thiago Lopez, controls El Burro Heights and has a presence throughout the Eastern side of Los Santos. The gang was founded by Navarro and Lopez and is run by three leaders, or "Jefes." In order to establish the Azteca as a dominant street gang, Navarro and Lopez recruited warriors, including Carlos El Demonio, whom they discovered while searching the southside. Carlos, known for his violent temper, helped the gang gain a foothold in the city and eventually took over leadership after Navarro and Lopez left. Under Carlos's leadership, the Azteca grew to become the largest, wealthiest, and most feared street gang in the city, with a consistent membership of 50.

**The Come Up**

Recognizing that their gang was unknown to the southside and its established gangs, the Azteca's Jefes knew they would have a difficult time earning respect. To establish themselves, they visited various suburbs in the southside to introduce themselves to the Vagos, Ballas, GSF, Gulag Gang, and Justus, letting these gangs know that a new gang had arrived on the scene.

The Azteca's Jefes, along with Carlos, helped the Vagos and their captain, Ethan, to defeat the Ballas, a rival gang they were at war with. This helped the Azteca's lay claim to the apartment blocks at the top of El Rancho Vagos territory. However, their alliance with the Vagos was short-lived as Jimmy Smalls, a rival leader, retaliated and forced the Vagos to back down.

After the failed alliance with the Vagos, the Azteca's Jefes decided to form a partnership with Justus. They met with the leaders, Zoey Badass and Ming Jingtai, to discuss a mutual goal of taking over meth lab cooks in order to strengthen their gangs. Carlos and Gabriel worked as a kill team for Justus, eliminating other gangs and crews in the meth labs, which helped establish the Azteca's reputation as a ruthless and persistent gang. They were able to secure a steady supply of meth from Justus and began working together on other criminal activities such as bank robberies and gang wars.

As Carlos and Gabriel wanted to see the Azteca's thrive independently, they recruited new members, including Niko Petrovic and Clay Watson, to start their own weed empire. This led to Thiago leaving the city and Gabriel Navarro appointing Carlos as the second Jefe. Carlos came across four members of the Sinister Souls MC, who were fighting over control of weed in their territory. After a heated altercation, their leader Angel managed to diffuse the situation and agreed to move to another area. Seeing the potential for an alliance, Carlos brokered a deal with Angel, offering the Azteca Apartment block at the top of Rancho in exchange for the SSMC's help in claiming more territory. Angel, eager to establish his gang's presence in the southside, accepted the deal and backed the Azteca's in their coming war.

After amassing enough money, the Azteca's realized that in order to expand their territory, they would have to take over someone else's. Rather than buying houses in the Rancho complex, they decided to go to war with the Marabunta Grande for control of El Burro Heights. They leveraged the threat of the Azteca's and SSMC to force the Marabunta's to back down, as they were already weary from previous conflicts with the Vagos.

After some negotiations, Juan Barrios of the Marabunta Grande decided to meet with Carlos, Gabriel, and Niko to discuss terms. Carlos proposed that Juan could become the third leader of the Azteca's as they already had a steady supply of meth from the Royal Black. The gangs merged and with one leader from each group, the Azteca's grew from two gangs of 8-10 members to a 20-strong gang with two territories. This is how the Azteca's became a powerful and respected gang in the city.

**Establishing their hold**

With their own territory, meth strain, and a large group of members, the Azteca's continued to grow and expand. However, as JB stopped flying into Los Santos, the Azteca's began to experience a decline in their membership for the first time. Niko brought forward the names of Cash Money and Artemis Pike, two individuals looking for a gang to join. Recognizing the potential of the weed business, Niko saw it as more profitable than meth. Cash Money and Artemis Pike had been at war with Justus as the last remaining members of GSF. After several meetings with Zoey Badass and Cass, Carlos was able to broker a deal where they could join the Azteca's if they sold the houses on Forum Drive to Justus.

With the addition of Cash Money and Artemis Pike, who were highly skilled and advanced weed growers in Los Santos, Gabriel decided to leave the city to focus on expanding the Azteca's in Whitelist. Carlos was appointed as the sole Jefe. The Azteca's focused on increasing their meth and weed production, and funneled 15 million dollars into their business account to purchase every available house in El Burro Heights and 4 warehouses for their weed operation. During this time, they avoided getting involved in gangs and warfare, and noticed that since they controlled the entire eastern side of Los Santos, other gangs left them alone as they had nothing they wanted. This allowed the Azteca's to become the wealthiest gang in the city, growing from 20 to 60 members at one point, with 10-20 members awake in each group. This further deterred other gangs from challenging them and allowed them to increase their family account even more. This led to the Azteca's being able to purchase their own private meth lab from the meth kingpins, the Dirty Boys. As a result, the Azteca's became firmly established in the city of Los Santos and were regarded as the third most influential gang, after the Gulag Gang and the Dirty Boys.

##### **Wars**

*Azteca's Vs Vagos*

Carlos had a long-standing grudge against the Vagos and was sent to Los Santos to dismantle the gang. He kept this a secret from all but Gabriel, Thiago, and Niko, and throughout his stay in Los Santos, he instigated fights and conflicts with the Vagos both internally and externally. When Lunatic, an ex-Balla, took over the Vagos, several members including Dominique Riley, Blake Jackson, Jack a roo, Shotti, Sunday Best, Ashley Harper, Jason Nesci, Johnny Savage and Geoff Mann left the Vagos and joined the Azteca's. However, this move also brought an old enemy, as Lunatic declared war on the Azteca's for taking in the "flag droppers". The war lasted for a week, with both gangs wiping each other out. After a week of fighting, Carlos and Lunatic had a meeting and decided to call it off for the mutual benefit of rebuilding the Vagos and focusing on another war that was brewing against the Gulag Gang. Carlos continued to instigate conflicts between the Vagos and Azteca's in the future, even stealing the girlfriend of the Jefe of the Vagos and recruiting more members. However, the Vagos never retaliated due to the Azteca's being much larger and more powerful.

*Azteca's Vs the Fake Azteca's*

One day, Carlos started receiving phone calls from members of the Dirty Boys, claiming that individuals wearing the Azteca's flag were attacking DB and meth lab spots and would disappear if killed. Realizing that none of the Azteca's would do this, Carlos knew something was amiss and took to social media to let the city know that there were impostors claiming to be Azteca's causing problems. This is when Benny Banks, the leader of this new crew, replied to the post "See you in 5". The fake Azteca's then began to attack Fudge lane relentlessly, respawning immediately after being killed and returning to the fight. This went on for days, primarily happening late at night when it was easy for them to fly in, and would not stop until government officials intervened to help. This war had a severe impact on the reputation of the Azteca's in the city, as most of the police and other gangs believed that it was the same gang doing these things. Many of the Azteca's stopped participating in the gang due to the toxicity and rule-breaking of this war. After clips of the fake Azteca's using aimbot, texture packs, and external crosshairs were revealed, they realized why the fight had been so hard. The fake Azteca's were finally deported from Los Santos, leaving the Azteca's to rebuild and hope that they would not return. Some of the fake Azteca's managed to return as the Soul Side Crips, but after another week of fighting, had the same outcome.

*Azteca's Vs Gulag Gang*

Once the meth lab was operational, the Azteca's had the benefit of being supplied by Royal Black and also having their own private lab. Even though they had a steady flow of meth being pushed at all times in all 3 tsunamis in El Burro, they were unable to move all of the product efficiently. They had a family meeting and decided that for the first time, they would get involved in meth runs. They spoke with the gangs and figured out who hit what run in what tsunami and decided the easiest one to slide in and steal was the NA run time. This was because the Dirty Boys did the AU run and they supplied the meth key to Carlos, so that was off the table. However, the NA run time was all out warfare and whatever gang won the shootout won the run. After successfully doing three meth runs, the Azteca's got comfortable and complacent. They drove the meth run car down to the drop-off location not realizing Gulag Gang and the Spanonis had just had a 4v4 shootout there and GG won. While loading meth for the drop-off, Turk, Marty, Ming and Julian showed up and gunned down Carlos and Dominique, thinking they were Spanonis, and robbed them of the 40 meth pillows.

Licking their wounds, Carlos knew that they would have to clap back, otherwise they would look soft, so he called Marty Banks to organize a meeting about what happened. Carlos had robbed the lower vault with Marty and Syndicate in the past, Marty said to meet them in the Barrio as they were about to clap the Vagos. Carlos came down with half the gang and had a large argument with GG which ended in Turk and Ming gunning most of the Azteca's down. This started the war with GG that would go on for 2 weeks. The Azteca's wiped GG during AU and EU when they were most strong, but when the A-team GG woke up in NA, they would get wiped.

Niko, having a long-standing relationship with Julian Santorno, decided to call a meeting after the fighting had been going on for a week. Ming, Julian, Jack Cortair, Marty Banks, and Zoey Badass came to Fudge Lane to squash the beef over the meth run and solidify peace through business. GG, being the main crew that did heists, did not have a solid street team at the time to push, so they decided to supply the Azteca's with all of their dirty money. This started the relationship between GG and the Azteca's, which would grow into the first alliance in the later months between the Azteca's, Gulag Gang, Street team, and War Dogs. The new alliance with GG benefited both gangs doing multiple daily runs of VR, and the Azteca's became the gun suppliers of Los Santos amassing 3 full warehouses of class 2's.

The street team of GG attempted to instigate a war with the Azteca's over a street race, but when they showed up with only 6 members, they quickly realized it was a bad idea. Carlos managed to talk them down and made them speak with Ming and Julian, as the street team was unaware that the Azteca's and GG were actually working as a shadow alliance the whole time.

*Azteca's Vs H.O.A*

Avery James was brought into the gang by recommendation of Shotti as one of his old friends from other cities. Avery was a master of recruitment and began to fill the ranks with new soldiers ready to prove themselves and be blooded in. With blood comes new problems. One of Avery's new guys Los came into the gang with two of his friends. They had a house together in Paleto Bay which at the time was run by the H.O.A who had been kicked out of Mirror Park by the AztecasxSyndicatexSinister Souls. Los woke up and decided before coming to fudge he would sell some weed that was about to go off and setup shop right in his front yard. After some sales the H.O.A rolled up on him questioning him why he was there selling weed. Since Los was not a flagged member yet he obeyed the rules Carlos had set for new members which is that they are associated with the Azteca's, but not members yet. Sensing an easy lick the H.O.A members gunned him down, robbed him and decided to ocean dump him to avoid suspicion with the Azteca's, not realizing that the friend that lived with Los witnessed the whole thing and texted Avery and Cash while it happened. Once Carlos woke up and found out what happened and that Los had lost 100k worth of equipment that he was loading into his trunk at the time, he got 6 men together with AK's and motorbikes and rode up to Paleto in his brand new R8, the only S class in the city at the time everyone knew who it was coming. H.O.A immediately put their hands up when the blue R8 pulled up with the bikes and said they didn't know anything about what happened. Carlos shot them all down and said for their leader to call him.

An hour later the leader of H.O.A twatted out that they would be coming to fudge in peace, Carlos being suspicious got the Azteca's to setup on the roofs with AK's. Since there was so many Azteca's awake the H.O.A pulled up but did not shoot, instead they put their guns on the ground and proceeded to talk about peace and not wanting to fight. Smelling fear Carlos put a gun to their leaders head and said that they wouldn't stand a chance even if they tried. If he wanted his members to live freely then he would have to pay up 200k within an hour, or the Azteca's will push H.O.A out of Paleto. The leader left and came back with 200k cash within 5minutes, and all of the equipment that was stolen from Los.

This was the beginning of Carlos realizing that the Azteca's were strong enough to make other gangs back down before a bullet was even fired, and he would use this in future conflicts which lead to 6 months of the Azteca's thriving not being in a single conflict, however profiting from making other smaller gangs pay up for protection or to not anger the Azteca's.