In 1986, a truce meeting was held for a cease-fire during the Christmas Holidays. However, the Maravilla have made several attempts to reconcile their differents by attending truce meetings in hopes of coexisting peacefully as neighbors. Maravilla Gangs are their own worst enemy, for instance, the Arizona Maravilla and the Lote Maravilla as the Lopez Maravilla are bitter enemies fighting for control over the same neighborhood. This feud has resulted in the Maravilla gangs having their own module separate from Sureno gangs in the Los Angeles County Jail. However, law enforcement credits this truce to their common rivalry with the Mexican-Mafia.
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In 1994, all the Maravilla gangs of East Los Angeles agreed to a truce, which lasted over a year and a half. However, this act of defiance led to them being “green-lighted” by the Mexican Mafia and becoming enemies of all Sureno gangs. The MaraVilla organization were one of the first gangs who refused to be taxed or share a portion of their criminal earnings with the Mexican Mafia (La Eme). Maravillas has spread throughout the San Gabriel Valley, Montebello, Nevada, and the Inland Empire. The Barrio Maravilla (MV) also known as Maravilla “Chapters” or Maravilisos consist of several smaller individual Mexican-American street gangs who originated in Unincorporated East Los Angeles, California. The Maravillas has been around since the early 1930s and are considered the first gangs in East Los Angeles.