All Things American

The Solid Wood Soldiers are a Texas gang known as a support group for the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas. But in the 2010s the SWS nearly found itself in a head-to-head conflict with the much more powerful and dominate prison gang. It happened as SWS was attempting to fund a segregationist community using meth proceeds.

China and Brazil have struck a deal to trade in their local currencies instead of the US dollar. They joined a long list of countries including Saudi Arabia, Kenya and India. Why is the world attempting to de-dollarize?

The Texas Mexican Mafia, also known as Mexikanemi, was formed after the creation of La Eme in California. As the gang has grown through the years, it became powerful enough to divide up San Antonio into four quarters and demand a 10% tax from all local drug dealers. Despite its propensity for internal violence, the gang has no trouble recruiting new members, even from the other side of the law.