GANG LIFE IN EAST L.A. by Joe Rodríguez



Chivo, from Evergreen, and his friend Boxer sit at the dining room
table with his mother and sister. Before leaving for her job as a bus
driver, his mother tells him he better get a job. Boyle Heights, 1993.



Chivo mowing the lawn. "...Mowing the lawn, otherwise my mom will
get on my case.... I need a job.... I never did heroin and I stopped smoking
weed. I seen what my mother went through with my dad. I used to deal
drugs but stopped. I didn't like what it did to people." Boyle Heights, 1993.



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