HermitKermit,have you perchance read a book called "The Black Hand" about a former high ranking member of the 'Mexican Mafia' aka La eMe?
It has a couple of interesting chapter about David Barron and another guy called Jose Alberto "Bat" Marquez...it says that the two of them eventually wanted to tax the AFO 50% of all their business and if they refused they would go to war with them.Of course we know what happened to Barron,and "Bat" was later arrested.I wonder if they could have pulled it off though...
I'm not even sure if La eMe has the manpower,resources or influence on the streets to go to war with the AFO. Most gangs in California or anywhere in the states are independents and form groups in prison for power even though they might be rivals in the outside world. I don't think La eMe direct soldiers in the outside except for some couple of gangs and from those only a small percentage will carry out the assassinations. But than again I am ignorant towards La eMe information.
