Former gang member Charlie Vazquez was eight years old when his family fled from El Salvador to Los Angeles in 1979. Julio helped initiate Charlie into the gang. The book refers it as social learning theory. “Associating with antisocial friend’s results in formerly law-abiding youth running afoul of the law”. In spring 1991 Charlie killed a black gang member under the influence of alcohol and cocaine. Charlie went to LA county jail for murder, but even then he felt no remorse whatsoever. In the beginning of the film Charlie mention the gang as a “home without a heart”. As soon as you become part of the gang all you want to do is evil things. Street borders, city borders nor provisional borders are a threat to MS-13. Charlie was deported to