Reymundo sanchez biography
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Once a King, Always a King: The Unmaking of a Latin King
This riveting sequel to My Bloody Life traces Reymundo Sanchez's struggle to create a "normal" life outside the Latin Kings, one of the nation's most notorious street gangs, and to move beyond his past. Sanchez illustrates how the Latin King motto "once a king, always a king" rings true and details the difficulty and danger of leaving that life behind. Filled with heartpounding scenes of his backslide into drugs, sex, and violence, Once a King, Always a King recounts how Sanchez wound up in prison and provides an engrossing firsthand account of how the Latin Kings are run from inside the prison system. Harrowing testaments to Sanchez's determination to rebuild his life include his efforts to separate his family from gang life and his struggle to adapt to marriage and the corporate world. Despite temptations, nightmares, regressions into violence, and his own internal demons, Sanchez makes an uneasy peace with his new
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Reymundo Sanchez
The name of the author of My Bloody Life, “Reymundo Sanchez,” is a pseudonym to insure anonymity of the author. Reymundo Sanchez, while not the “Lil Loco” that he writes about, is a former Latin King who draws from his own experiences and those of his friends to write about the life of Lil Loco. He no longer lives in Chicago, but his current whereabouts are not known beyond that.
Sanchez wrote a sequel to My Bloody Life, called Once a King Always a King: The Unmaking of a Latin King. This sequel is much more about Sanchez himself: “In Once a King, Always a Kingthe eulogy of Lil Loco ends but my life continues.
I still draw from the experiences of others in the beginning as way to assure my anonymity, but tell totally about my life once the story no longer revolves around the Latin Kings” (Sanchez, nogangs.com). Sanchez is currently working on a book, coming out in 2008, called Lady Q, that he says is based on the story of a real indi
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My Bloody Life
Autobiography by Reymundo Sanchez
My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King is an autobiography by Reymundo Sanchez (a pseudonym) about his life as a teenage street gang member in Chicago.[1][2]
The author of the book, Reymundo Sanchez, was a lost boy - disowned bygd physically abusive step-fathers who could not care less about him or his mother. He soon learned that street survival for himself depended on whom he counted on among his friends and to which gang he belonged in the Humboldt Park community.
Living in the first floor of a slum apartment on the corner intersection streets of Kedzie and Armitage, Raymundo’s neighborhood was a stronghold of the Almighty Latin Kings Queens Nation. Initiated into the Latin Kings by performing his first hit at the age of 12, he earned a reputation for violence, armed robbery, burglary, attempted murder, drug dealing, and gangbanging.
A 30-block area of Chicago defined his reality of the world as a