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so who killed santana and what happened to mundo?


yeah when santana got killed at the end was it by mundo? his childhood friend (not the white guy JD)... and if it wasnt then what happened to mundo? did he get killed by little puppet for making the northern gang or did he get sent to another prison?

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The hit was orderd by JD and carried out buy Mundo and the other gang members.
Mundo just stayed in the gang, and Lil Pupet was killed by Puppet, another hit JD ordered

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damn that was *beep* up he got killed by his pal, who he grew up with and took care of, its a damn shame


but i knew JD was going to waste him, cause he said that not killing little puppet would make them look weak

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so mundo and JD teammed up and killed santana? but why

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well im thinking that JD saw that santana was starting to go soft, and better killing him than letting the gang look soft, so he ordered mundo and the others to kill santana, and the chinese/japanese guy didnt help help cause i guess he was the only true loyal one to santana

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man.. thats messed up growing up with who you claim to be brothers with and they end up backstabbing you.. was there really an asian guy in real life that was in the mexican mafia and such?

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no bro theres been whites even in the mexican mafia, well at least thats what a guy (who claimd=s hes one) told me once

so who knows, you have to seek them out to know for sure, but it aint like it used to be anymore though, its all changed

bu yeah its *beep* up getting stabbed in the back by a long time friend, a brother like friend

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Even worse, getting killed by your REAL brother, like Lil puppet.

Since the Asian guy didn't help, would they kill him?

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It's rare to see an non-hispanic be a fully-certified/patched La Eme. It's not unusual to see the occasional white or asian to be seen hanging around with the hispanics as an affiliate. The heads sometimes do "race trading" because (in the case of JD/Joe Morgan), some guys grow up in a culture different from their skin tone and thus identify with it more. However, each prison is different and depending on the rules and politics of the shot-callers, anything's possible. It's interesting though to see some prisons like in Georgia that don't have the "Race Power Structure" unlike California and Arizona.

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In an earlier scene they actually kill one of their own because he was acting soft and not willing to do the job. They even say that by killing one of their own it earns them more respect from everyone else in the prison. So killing little Puppet and Santana is making sure other gangs don't find them weak and try to exploit it.

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There was a Mexican Mafia member named "Jap Mike". Chino is based on him. JD is based on Joe Morgan (not the former baseball player, the career criminal), who was in the Mexican Mafia and was white.

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Yeah his name was Mike Kito and he was a member of La Eme.
He survived the prison wars, retired to Hawaii and got a job as a consultant on Baywatch if you can believe that. Him and two other La Eme members who went to Hawaii with him were seen meeting up with organised crime figures over there. Olmos's character Santana is based on one of the La Eme founders, Rodolfo Cadena and JD/William Forsythe is based on La Eme member Joe Morgan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodolfo_Cadena
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_%22Pegleg%22_Morgan

In real life, Cadena was actually killed by another prison gang, La Nuestra Familia. The Mexican Mafia were outraged at the depiction of Santana/Cadena getting raped in juvie and the film's depiction of them killing Santana in the end and they murdered two of the film crew members to get their point across and apparently also attempted to extort Olmos.

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JD orders the hit. It is evident in the way he looks at Mundo after he finished talking to Santana in prison. Santana started this trend of killing internally ironically because remember he orders a hit on Pieface for not being hard enough to kill his former "crime-partner". That is why Santana mentions it in narration as it having a high-price: one cost being his own life.

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JD ( the white guy) ordered it.. Mundo and the rest of the gang/inmates carried it out

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