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"Smile Now, Cry Later"
Artwork submitted by Paso Del Norte Region area youth

(pieces depicting the dangers and snares of gang involvement from personal experience)


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Gangster anger out of control, El Paso (cholo art, Hispanic gangster drawings) 
Anger out of control


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Gangster life = a sorry life (cholo art, Hispanic gangster drawings)
"Gangster's life - a sorry life"


Tears of a Clown by P Vasquez, El Paso (cholo art, Hispanic gangster drawings)  
"Tears of a Clown"

Cultura, drawing by P Vasquez, El Paso    Me and You, drawing by Zarate, El Paso   Sangre de Indio, drawing by P Vasquez, El Paso (cholo art, Hispanic gangster drawings)
             Cultura                                             "Me and You"                                  "Sangre de Indio"      

Te Amo - drawing by P Vasquez, El Paso (cholo art, Hispanic gangster drawings)   
"Te Amo" ("I Love You")                                         Gangster's Death - Lived by the Bullet

Amor, drawing by P Vasquez, El Paso (cholo art, Hispanic gangster drawings)  True love at last, drawing by P Vasquez, El Pas(cholo art, Hispanic gangster drawings)o
"Amor por siempre"  ("Forever love")                                              "True Love at Last"     
                  

  Jesus saves a gangster, El Paso (cholo art, Hispanic gangster drawings)    Jesus and Virgin Mary (cholo art, Hispanic gangster drawings)
                              "Jesus saves a gangster"                                 "Virgin Mary tends to a dying Jesus"                     

"Sun City" (cholo art, Hispanic gangster drawings) 
"Sun City EPT heritage"                                                         "Good old cruisin' Sundays"

Hispanic gangster/cholo artwork, drawings, El Paso, New Mexicosmile now, cry later - for sure, J Carrillo-El Paso"> "
"From whence I descended"                                      "Smile now, cry  later - for certain"


Smile Now, Cry Later cholo art drawing, El Paso, TX">   915 peace (cholo drawings, Hispanic gangster artwork)  
"Smile, Cry -it's all the same now"                                                                        "Peace in the 915"

I love you Amber and Ashley - wait for me please  The Monster I've Become, drawing by A Vasquez, Chaparral, NM (cholo/gang art drawings)
                                                                  "The Monster I Became"

Spiritually oppressed gangster - J Alvarado/Sunland Park, New Mexico"> Primera Flats Dangers in Big Bad LA">
"Spiritually oppressed gangster"                             "L.A. Gang Drama - All Behind Me"
 

The 13, the South, the Sur, brought me death and destruction - it was all lies they told me. "
"A number of death and destruction - 13"                            "Indigenous beginnings"

 Confused decisions - Ernesto G -Chaparral, NM - Operation No Gangs www.operationnogangs.org


"Rich and deep roots"

Mi Vida Loca, "A Jesus Le Importas Tu" - from former Victory tract (Hispanic gangster/cholo artwork, drawings, El Paso, New Mexico)

Proud of the color God made me, El Paso (Hispanic gangster/cholo artwork, drawings, El Paso, New Mexico)

Heritage pride (Hispanic gangster/cholo artwork, drawings, El Paso, New Mexico)

"Gang Life Dangers" (Hispanic gangster/cholo artwork, drawings, El Paso, New Mexico)

Proud of my forebears (Hispanic gangster/cholo artwork, drawings, El Paso, New Mexico)

"Los Angeles Gang-Banging: Drugs, Jail, Premature Death" (Hispanic gangster/cholo artwork, drawings, El Paso, New Mexico)

  

 

"The Deceitfulness of the Fast Gangster Life" (Hispanic gangster/cholo artwork, drawings, El Paso, New Mexico)

pachuco payaso (Hispanic gangster/cholo artwork, drawings, El Paso, New Mexico)">


       Descendiente, drawing by P Vasquez, El Paso (cholo art, Hispanic gangster drawings)  God bless you, drawing by P Vasquez, El Paso (cholo art, Hispanic gangster drawings)
  
 "Bad times, good times." (cholo art, Hispanic gangster drawings)  
""Good times, bad times - we must move on" 

"My haina joined the gang life, too." (cholo art, Hispanic gangster drawings) "A Gift For You  (cholo art, Hispanic gangster drawings)>
 
"Crazy Side Gangster Life - Delusion" (cholo art, Hispanic gangster drawings)
"Crazy side gangster life -- all delusion, trickery, death"

Gang life is an invitation to death of dreams, future and possibly self. (Hispanic gangster/cholo artwork, drawings, El Paso, New Mexico)
Gang life is an invitation to death of dreams, future and possibly self.

  "por nosotros, pecadores" (cholo art, Hispanic gangster drawings)  "Tristeza Mia, Vida Loca" (cholo art, Hispanic gangster drawings)



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