How the US Exported a Bloods and Crips Gang War to Belize

A perfect storm of deportations and pop culture created a violent U.S. inspired gang culture, and Belize is reeling from a spate of recent killings.
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[@rjjames8045]

Belize: We need food and supplies USA: Best I can do is bloods and crips

[@AriessunvirgomoonlightLibraise]

LMAO, RIGHT 😩😆🤣

[@jordandavies7789]

bro the video was just uploaded 7 min ago u cant even have watched it completley

[@BonShula]

@@jordandavies7789 Wow, you must be the funniest man alive

[@ihatestupid.people4611]

Lol😂😂😂

[@Kelzerkids]

Yeah just disregard the $10 million in aid we give them every year

[@Aveofficialtone]

“Apparently he was the target” *Stands right next to him*

[@brooktrout2154]

Lol well if they only let out 5 shots I’m sure it’ll be a while till those 5$ bags can fund more bullets

[@gonzalot.1629]

Lmfaoo 😂😂😂😂

[@aduarte8057]

@@brooktrout2154 I had a friend from Belize. He told me once you don't die from getting shot out there. You die from the rust on the bullet.

[@ViraL_FootprinT.ex.e]

Bro... these Vice reporters don't give aF 🤣💀 I'm convinced one of the qualifications for the job *has* to be "suicidal".

[@void_skeptic7578]

@@brooktrout2154 they definitely have bullets to spare considering they get weapons from the mexican cartel

[@AwokenEntertainment]

It's crazy how many people idolize the original LA blood & crip gang sets to the point where it's been taken to hoods all over the world.. They study and aim to replicate a way of life that they see portrayed in movies, music videos, and pop culture..

[@kevinkbbaltripsr5061]

Thanks to GTA

[@kris2672]

Street life am from deez streets we run deez streets, we sell drugs to your kids because we Hella uneducated

[@_NT91]

Yes new Zealand is the worst. It's full of wannabes. it's such a safe country and they act like they str8 from l.a it's cringey and doesn't make sense.

[@liama4199]

@@_NT91 anyone would prefer being around wannabes than actual geyng beyngarz. Fyi: it will not be a "seyf kunntree" for long if too mennie of u keape pouring in for that very reason. Cringey is you ignoring that obvious fact and having the nerve to complain about them in their own kunntree. Try focusing instead on ur pipol which are the real noosinces the world over. Thanks

[@_NT91]

@@liama4199 learn to spell. Thanks.

[@glamesky]

bro thinks its team rumble

[@tyrranicalt-rad6164]

I'm sure the Blood / Crip feud will eventually make it's way to Mars when we colonize it . 🤣

[@m2-x-n253]

FACTS - gangs are the results of huge inequalities in a society, FIGHT AND DEPEND is in our GENES , regardless itll show up in one way or other.

[@gokublaclivesmatter7151]

💙💙

[@gmdtech8008]

Drive by shootings on space ships LMFAO 😂

[@SergioGarcia-qn3zq]

@@notknown1 lol laughing at the peasants or what ?

[@kyreejones438]

In la blood & crips not that deep crips beefing with crips same with the bloods

[@donp3857]

As a Belizean, I can say that gang violence is usually kept between themselves only. So the key is really just to stay outta of hotspots which are limited to small neighborhoods, and mind your business. Compared to our neighbors Mexico and Guatemala this is nothing. Belize is still a relatively peaceful place. Wouldn't trade it for the world.

[@shottakush8404]

Exactly that’s like looking at Chicago and saying the entire United States is like that

[@curiodyssey3867]

Thank you for your insight. Everybodys on here with there opinions yet theyre all talking behind theit comfy keyboards abroad. Stay safe brotha

[@IyanAhmath12]

Thank you for your comment. I’m trying to join you. Looking at buying in PG. Safe travels!!

[@mikloridden8276]

This right here is correct. For example in Mexico the cartels will mess with you regardless

[@simz04]

Belize ±30 murder / 100 000 / year. Chicago ±18.2 murder / 100 000 / year. Canada ±1.7 murder / 100 000 / year. Its all in your perception, you feel safe because you know your surroundings but in fact violence must be pretty high to surpass Chicago and be 15x that of Canada. Here I can walk in the worst ghetto of the province on a saturday at 11pm and i wouldnt be worried for a second. I do not know a single person who owns a firearm outside of hunters with hunting carbines.

[@MattIsLoling]

USA-"Do you guys have any indoor organic live soil hand trimmed small batch top colas?" Belize-"We have mexican kush"

[@weknowthetruth6070]

White ash brick weed lmao and the hash I bet is 90u

[@user-bk4hn4li2o]

🤣😂

[@81quiroz]

Vice thank you 🙏 for doing this interview i posted this on my Facebook so my family that’s there can hear the interview from the people causing the killing and why it’s sad it’s over weed

[@Ben-sl8tj]

You can tell he has no idea what he’s talking about when he’s talking about how great the “Mexican Kush” is when it’s just shitty weed wrapped in plastic. He’s just trying to imitate what he saw in American media. Really sad.

[@siomokof3425]

Hell yeah ,it’s schwag

[@guajardo172]

Straight brick reggie. Not good at all 😂

[@julioservantes8242]

It might be strong due to it being ditch weed laced with synthetic cannabinoids.

[@jerrycowa3279]

You guys are so quick to judge thst you guys probably haven’t even realized y’all have smoke some mexican weed. Not all mexican weed is schwag

[@Canarka1]

@@jerrycowa3279 they’re quick to judge because you could literally see how bad the product was with your own eyes….

[@eboshi122]

Somebody send Belize a DVD of Lord of the Rings. Maybe they'll start LARPing instead

[@RuiLuz]

LEL!

[@Jormungandr5354]

They’re already larping acting like crips and bloods

[@Jormungandr5354]

@@c91humungoit literally says that they pulled the idea from the Movie “Colors”

[@Jormungandr5354]

@@c91humungo I get your point but How are you going to overlook the fact that they decided one day to just start wearing red and blue bandanas and act like they’re actual crips and bloods they even use their slang😂

[@Jormungandr5354]

@@c91humungo I never said It was fake, you clearly cant read correctly I said that they ripped the whole concept off a movie compared to here in the US where it actually originated to fight off racism and used as a form to unite black Americans

[@troymoore9281]

What’s crazy is that a lot of LA gang members are Belizean themselves

[@user-bk4hn4li2o]

Right, that's how it got there fr.

[@kingjamestres]

What kills me is how young so many of these dudes are.

[@timberwolfe1645]

That's because if you are older, you have a family to protect and not just youself

[@zshakur]

"Too much thinking's not good for the brain." is the most oxymoronic statement I've ever heard....and still makes perfect sense through the context of his comment.

[@vinny5638]

when I read this comment I thought it was stupid but after watching the video honestly I would be just like that guy, it would be very difficult to be conscious in an environment like that.

[@picuspojebany7407]

i laughed very hard at this xD

[@cliffonator1111]

Bad for the anxiety

[@creiko9099]

Some of us live this everyday

[@skiptomile]

yooooooooo fr

[@tufab3494]

Latin America: factions and cartels Belize: local US Gang Sets makes sense...

[@tufab3494]

@Pecker Dúnling San Patricio Space Dolphin Brigada what? I didin't get it

[@tufab3494]

@Pecker Dúnling San Patricio Space Dolphin Brigada since the 60's, when the US helped to create some dictatures here, Latin America lives constant Faction and Cartel wars, including police, who have their own factions, the Rio de Janeiro Militias, wich use US Special Forces training inherited from the 60's military to commit crimes and terrify their favela's population

[@tufab3494]

​@@javierelorza3851 No critique at all G, its cuz here in Latin America we get money from our local addicts bruh... Who told you we earn money selling dope to gringos? You guys indeed buy overtaxed dope from us, but that's not what makes our money, that's why I can't understand how come Belize has US Gang Sets rather than Factions and Cartels, it simply ain't lucrative for 'em. I aint blaming Vice neither US for that. The only thing I blame US is the fact they created almost every South American Cartel, helping the 60's dictatures, but I have no ideia who's the fault of this Belize problem. I know the prob of my country, Brazil

[@tufab3494]

@Pecker Dúnling San Patricio Space Dolphin Brigada 1st of all: Germans DIDN'T built Brazil, they barely came to here LMFAO, clearly you don't know what you sayin so please dont even try, and 2nd of all: our factions are 50/50 leftist and rightist, what you said simply don't make sense. Bolsonaro's member of the CL220 Militia, which is from Far Right, but still criminals as any other. Do yourself a favor and go to the psychiatrist fr

[@javierelorza3851]

@@tufab3494 Tudo bem irmao then(?, Argentino here, sorry for misunderstanding

[@_allcap]

I've been to Belize (Belize City & San Pedro) a couple times, great country and ppl. You learn pretty quickly what areas to stay away from. As a whole it was great and I would love to go back

[@milascave2]

This is so sad for me. I spent. year in Belize and Guatemala in the late 1970s, at the ages of 14-15, most of it in Belize. Belize City is the only city in the nation, and I only spent a little bit of time there, because even then it was not always that mellow. But the police did not carry guns, just small clubs. Outside of BC, there are few to no movie theatres, let alone TV. It was still fairly primitive but in a good way. Weed was popular, it cost twenty-five sense. Grahm of locally grown buds, and they would roll the whole thing up into joints made with brown bag paper. It was a small hustle for the most part. Cocaine was rare. Medicines containing narcotics, as well as Valium, could be purchased without a prescription, but few people did unless they actually needed it. The first place I lived in had the luxury of electricity, but you bathed with a bucket and a bowl, in shorts, by a pump at the side of the road. Tourists missed us, backpackers were rare. I loved it. I came back in 1993, and a lot had already changed. There were loads of tourists, as well as the US (instead of the British) military>things cost a lot more. The police seemed to be, if less eccentric, more uptight. And yes, there was evidence of Crips and Bloods. I saw their graffiti on the wall in a small remote town. I saw a young man with "Crips" tattooed on his arm. I heard another guy say "They are not Crips. They are chips. We eat them all the time." Still, it seemed like more of a young men's fad than real organized gang activity. But in Belize city, at least, I learned that this was not the case there. They told me that young Belizeans had gone to the USA, staying mainly in LA, and then getting deported back. They brought with them the tools of the trade. Gang affiliations and knowledge of how to REALLY deal drugs, especially cocaine, which they had learned how to convert into crack, and that doing so was basically a license to print money. And they knew how to get and use big guns. The same thing happened in El Salvador, Cambodia, and probably other places. So yea, it was not created just by one movie. Another factor was that the US government had shut down the direct smuggling route from Columbia to Miami. So the Columbians had learned to smuggle the drugs, mainly cocaine, overland across Central American. They paid people who helped them along the way by giving them cocaine to sell. Another way was to still use ships, but travel near the coast of Central America. And again, Belize became involved. Its coast has maze-like mangrove swamps containing small Islands and REALLY remote places. It had been used by pirates at one time, because of that. It is, in fact, named after a pirate. The word "Belize" is derived from an English pirate named "Wallace." The Columbians to would drop off in places where Belizean criminals helped them to refuel and were paid a kilo of coke for their troubles. So yea, I think that the 1980s was when Marijuana was the main drug that they used and exported. But in the 90s, coke sales dwarfed weed sales. Since then, from all I have heard, it has gotten much worse. I am afraid to go back and see what it has become. Although if you have the money, you can go to resorts where it is still mellow. But gone are the days when I could live there for one hundred dollars a month.

[@CrispColdChris]

My cousin and his wife built a house in Belize and live there now. They love it from what I've heard. I'll have to ask him about all this whenever i see him again.

[@milascave2]

@@CrispColdChris Good the hear. I expect that there are still rural areas where one can live in peace. But Belize city? Forget it. It is the only city in Belize, and even in the seventies, it was rougher than the rest of the nation. But before I lived in B elize as a teen, I lived there with my parents as a small child in the 1960s. Part of that time was in Belize City, and it was pretty nice, as I recall.

[@CrispColdChris]

@@milascave2 yea they built the house right on the beach in what must be a rural area. They're more country people for sure, couldn't imagine them living in the city.

[@kayleegutierrez3513]

Don't be afraid to go back that's my home country just know you need a little mula to have a really good experience

[@aurelio_marino]

@@milascave2 Hello Milascave, don't you have any friend who can talk to me in Belize? I am currently traveling here

[@BigDaddy-vr2ut]

Wow. They are killing each other off over nickel bags of weed. Truly even sadder then what I thought might of been the reason , what they were fighting each other about. Control of the streets . Smh

[@jamworldbze]

Untold stories finally been told

[@finchisneat]

To OP: Well drugs have to do with control of the street but when the AMOUNT comes down to nickel bags, that's I certainly very sad and very telling.

[@jeremyelias5197]

Streets and “blocks” they don’t even own… it truly is sad

[@Wowvod]

Gangbanging over Owned government property.

[@jeremyelias5197]

@Nathaniel Lizarraga guy, read the title. Not to mention the COINTELPRO program and so much more. It’s not only blacks either. It’s anyone they deem unfit. “The white man” shouldn’t be taken in a literal sense either. It’s a euphemism of the US government as a whole.

[@mrniceguy7168]

It’s the same issue as El Salvador and Honduras. Los Angeles: exporting gangs since the 80s.

[@luisitocomunista546]

And we can’t properly deal with them. Those guys are like ISIS

[@angelgonzalez5307]

Mostly 18st and MS13

[@louieDsypo]

@@angelgonzalez5307 those people need jobs and resources..

[@interitvm]

@David jones How can you compare gangs with Terrorist organizations? 😂

[@seanbrummfield448]

But, then again, the MS 13 and other gangs were started by refugee kids and teens who got into drugs and alcohol back in the 80s and once they went back home, they advertised for more people and terrorized their countries.

[@patriciagowland8254]

This is so sad for the families they have to survive 🙏

[@chilov2810]

I have traveled to and lived in Belize. I have family there right now. The individuals that say they are gang members, in my opinion, are made to seem to be victims. When I lived there the gang members that I observed there were really involved in despicable crimes, such as the trafficking of young women and other misogynistic crimes. I really think I speak from experience when I say that these men involved in this gang activity, even in Belize, have choices. I've known very poor Belizean people who choose to walk the 'straight and narrow'. I've known personally as very close friends, individuals that literally came from the poorest of the poor and chose not to victimize their fellow neighbors. These people chose to work hard, and over time, rose to be able to productive citizens in Belize.

[@drakokamikaze8823]

Actually not everyone's situation is the same. Some have to join or parish. Others have a choice.

[@lucifyaah]

Honestly it’s not as black and white as that. A lot of them are victims of their circumstances. They haven’t been given the opportunity to know another life than this. You either join or you die or get hurt in worse ways. Yes it’s ‘limited’ to certain areas but when kids are born in that situation and no one helps to take them out of the life they’ve grown up knowing, how can we fault them for becoming the very thing we tell and show them they’ll become?

[@Skorpse]

If only things were this simple.

[@future140]

you’ve obviously never grown up in that environment, traveling somewhere and being born somewhere are 2 completely different things.

[@chilov2810]

@@future140 you couldn't be more wrong, but that's ok, to each his own.

[@geraldmaxwell3277]

The next time the US deports Belizeans, could they send them DVDs of The Lord of The Rings. It is about time we had a drug lord called Sauron.

[@kolynmckenzie7184]

Yall are stupid it's not just because of the movies it's because the deported Belizean were in gangs in LA and brought it back home . Acting like u didn't take english 🙄.

[@plasmicats2000]

@@kolynmckenzie7184 Read the first sentence of his comment blind ass

[@raspy1135]

@@plasmicats2000 😂😭😭😭

[@MC-or3oi]

@@kolynmckenzie7184 Eediat

[@tubester4567]

Right. Its unbelievable how people always find a way to blame the US. The Belize people were in the US illegally to begin with. They were part of gangs when they arrived. In the 1970's when Godfather was a thing they were called Hispanic Mafia. Now they call themselves bloods and crips. The problem is people doing crime.

[@iqbalsandu8182]

Imagine sending dvds of Bollywood movies to belieze. 😂😂😂

[@abhirajarora7631]

They are gonna get wild after that.

[@antoniobanderas9769]

😂 dancing like Indian moves and moving the head like Indians, when they talking and the accent too .

[@theobuniel9643]

_Inb4 they watch Gangs of Wasseypur_

[@fantasticfractals9583]

It wouldn't matter they want to follow American black culture not foreign culture

[@0092mateo]

😅

[@TheYm3r]

Can anyone link me to the full documentry?

[@sandramccullough5265]

Can we just appreciate the fact that he's literally risking his life to give us these videos

[@Vunu20k]

Crazy , they really waging war over some Reggie Mexican weed

[@JFromDaA]

Fr tho

[@xbumbo_]

That "weed u be buying comes from mexico aswell💀

[@LiKWiDjay]

@@xbumbo_ not the point. This brick reggie miller. Theres good weed and bad. This that charles Barkley

[@roguethereaper1192]

@@xbumbo_ 😂😂 actually it doesn't

[@jmemixx]

Mexico always gets it cut

[@PoohBeer6342]

As a Belizean this hurts my heart to watch. For everyone watching this don't think that Belize is only violence. The reality is it's a beautiful peaceful place. You just have to stay out of certain neighborhoods on the southside.

[@davoa7028]

As a Belizean living now in the US ,I couldn’t agree more with you.👍🏼

[@namedoesntmatter9330]

As an American please don't think the US is all sunshine and good living, the city I live in, here in the states, 10 murders in 7 days back in the last week of this past May. It's not so peaceful here anymore.

[@minorcek]

@@namedoesntmatter9330 Im an American. One of my best friends that i grew up with since pre school was shot and killed while waiting at a red light for "looking at someone the wrong way", in the killers own words. He was only 27. It happened a block away from the house he grew up in and not in a bad part of town or anything like that. If we dont do something urgently I can guarantee someone who reads this will one day soon think to themselves "gun violence never really effects you personally until it does". Its so senseless, so cruel, so pointless and so hard to come to terms with someone you love having to die like that. I was born and raised in Arizona, where firearms are widely accepted as normal but now they leave such a weird taste in my mouth. Now, I *have* to carry one.

[@namedoesntmatter9330]

@@minorcek I am very sorry to hear that 😔 I know the pain of losing someone you care about to not only gun violence but just plain sinister human nature. My friend was murdered and robbed also. This happen back in January 2015. That day I found the (the next morning) seeing it on TV was unreal and still haunts me. He and I was once close. He didn't deserve to have his life taken just as your loved didn't deserve to have theirs taken either 😞 I agree with you. I'm in North Carolina by the way. I know AZ is a beautiful state, humans we can be so heartless to one another

[@zoechine7180]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2a5pIuditR3qZo ?

[@secondhandlyon2603]

I've been to Belize city several times. I never had a problem but I knew the potential was there. Beautiful country.

[@yuriajones]

The saddest part about the situation is that gangs are beefing over $5 bags of weed, while cannabis is now legally sold in several states in the US. What many may not know is that countries like Belize may have taken the position to criminalize cannabis because it wanted to establish and maintain positive relations with the US. Now that cannabis is commercialized and is now big business in the US, it's not so easy to turn things around and do the same in the Caribbean.

[@User-54631]

Based on a movie 😂😂😂 “Too much thinking hurts the brain” Summed it all up right there my man. 😂

[@adriano2308]

overthinking = anxiety = feeling like youre going crazy some traumas are too much to even think about

[@bermymon99]

Seems like you missed the point of what he said

[@CoteySpeaksEverything]

Lol

[@nahshanyahudah2261]

@@bermymon99 Brews killin brews errywhere smh shalom ach

[@unitedfirearms1057]

Was just going to comment this.... what the hell

[@alt.8289]

It's good that they didn't watch The Purge...

[@JimmyCrackCorn_]

Explain

[@wyteboiii_]

For real!

[@borys2767]

@@JimmyCrackCorn_ LOL Jimmy they only could get the movie Colours on a Beta tape they had no DVD player so they could watch the movie The Purge....LOL

[@maxbrandstetter528]

@@JimmyCrackCorn_ ? Because then they would try to re-enact the purge in real life.

[@JimmyCrackCorn_]

You clowns do know there is a huge Belizean Population in Los Angeles right? Nah, it's okay, choose the stupid path and listen to Vice...

[@themaskedman221]

"I try not to think." Indeed, and that's a large part of the problem here.

[@mali6238]

@ 4:26 the way that he jumped is a reminder that gang life will forever leave you with PTSD and anxiety, knowing at any moment you could die a very gruesome death is horrifying to say the least.

[@JK-co1tw]

This life is an exhausting cycle of pain, confusion and dread.

[@barelyawake868]

Its lit

[@JK-co1tw]

@@barelyawake868 lit like hell.

[@barelyawake868]

@@JK-co1tw 🤪🕺

[@GAsh0012]

@@JK-co1tw you alright bro?

[@JK-co1tw]

@@GAsh0012 I guess I have to be.

[@davidspangenberg3860]

When they placed the dominos on his casket, absolutely heartbreaking.

[@skiptomile]

fr

[@LukeWayneProductions]

I spent so much time looking for the pizza…

[@WalterWhite-hv7mk]

@@LukeWayneProductions not funny

[@KarmaOLF]

@@WalterWhite-hv7mk yes it is

[@Unknown_Ooh]

@@WalterWhite-hv7mk Actually it is

[@SladeWilsonOG]

It’s crazy I’m half Guyanese 🇬🇾 and it’s amazing how belizeans talk just similar to us

[@wmeador611]

I remember my brother going there in the early nineties as part of a church mission to go to Belize to build a school. It's sad to see that this is how twenty years has treated this place

[@johancarrillo4150]

The rest of the country is far different from this. This problem mainly happens in Belize City. I live in a village far away form the city and life there is peaceful.

[@wisemonkey8485]

"too much thinking hurts the brain" -Gang member

[@jamesmiles7245]

🤦🏽‍♂️

[@zeromailss]

@@dubaibank vicious cycle is too real

[@Lavandersasha]

It makes sense tho in an environment like that it’s probably for the best to not overthink things and not ask questions you don’t need to ask

[@jerz840]

Iknow right he really said that

[@weirdtuberjournalism9757]

If he just thought alittle harder he probably wouldn't be a gang member.

[@sbarter]

"we dont sell hydro, we sell kush." lol. Reminds me of my middle school days.

[@downwithtrudeau]

We have hydro kush

[@ntroxell83]

Kush is a strain hydro is method of growing some peoples kids lmao

[@ntroxell83]

They dont know they're ass from a hole n the ground

[@danielnelan8698]

I was cringing as well haha

[@dylanfuck1285]

@@ntroxell83 thank god somebody else knows what they are talking about

[@referrtosomeone]

It's so sad that people and terrorists really just do this. My dad and me and my brother are belizean, it's just terrible this has to happen. Both of my cultures are stereotyped as gangs and drug cities.. I really do hope my dad is safe, he immigrated to america from his cruise job and I was born. He was my warm blanket, I loved him so much. He fought a gang too, my dad is so strong i love him so much he's my superman

[@rockharddock1711]

i wish i had parents

[@user-jr7vc9dp7u]

This ain't your blog, bucko.

[@yacab1830]

PART 2???

[@syk9855]

“Too much thinking is bad for the brain eh? That’s why I don’t think.”

[@hbualnkner]

He's speaking in relation to what just occurred (the shooting). The syntax and context is different

[@dancingbuzzoppa]

they don't "don't think". they CAN'T think.

[@JYoung3rd]

They don’t think very much over there and it shows by their actions.😂🤣

[@beezewax3701]

Study long and you study wrong💯

[@clayton9136]

Yes.. good job buddy you watched the video! What's the premise of your comment. Why did you feel the need to quote the video we all just watched.

[@fedorrussel3810]

Imagine starting a decades-old gang conflict over a fucking movie.

[@kolynmckenzie7184]

Yall don't get the context it's because of deported Belizeans who were already in gangs came back and formed their own gangs

[@andrewperez8312]

Vice news on them front lines whether gang, cartel or war zones between countries never seen this had no idea there blood and crips in Belize shout out vice and hind hassan beautiful stay safe

[@srirachasoda8961]

Now all we need is Hamilton licking random toads in the amazon, and we'll be entering OG Vice Vibes.

[@rosa.ali88]

wow exceptional journalism keep up the great work; illuminating the aspects of society that world turns a blind eye to.

[@CallForGrandPappy]

The Crip named “withheld” seems like a good guy

[@redhammer5783]

Lol

[@Daynnikes]

With a name like that you would think he’d keep his mouth shut 🤫 😂

[@shibainu213]

Become rich now! Don't wait

[@azaelrodriguez3533]

Yo quiero saber sobres este tema como le ago para escucharlo o leerlo en español

[@jillpatton3432]

Can we export even more?

[@midwesternexplorer9339]

Very misleading title. It should be titled, "How deported felons adopted an American movie for the gang names/Fueds.

[@TropicalMafia473]

Exactly.

[@AltaMirage]

Exactly. But Vice is a leftist organisation.

[@user-qb9lo1sk9z]

Wrong, the prisoner they interviewed was misinformed. And how could you even trust the words of one single prisoner? Y’all little suburban kids who sit behind screens all day think you got it figured out. I’m sorry that I gotta be the one to tell you this… but you’re stupid.

[@xvsghshsgsgdhdhy5862]

but but USA bad. didn't you get the memo?

[@user-qb9lo1sk9z]

@@xvsghshsgsgdhdhy5862 as much as you’re saying it jokingly, the USA is pretty bad. I’d say educate yourself.

[@captain711]

From personal experience, my family came from Belize and landed in LA. some of my cousins joined gangs, got in trouble then they sent him back home. Crazy

[@twntytwo2887]

Man I love the movie colors! That’s crazy how much a movie can influence!

[@nugsnjugs9954]

"Its not good to think about it, thinking about it will make you crazy, that I why I dont think" Yeah we see that.

[@Enzo-zy2cq]

Nah man this whole doc is lowkey a comedy. From the feds "apparently getting a tip on the cannabis" to the war because of $5 worth of weed which unfortunately took the life of a 51 year old blood.

[@louieDsypo]

It happen in America too .. i know hood dudes that hit a lick for a ounce of bud and end up dead and in the 80s and 90s in chicago gangs fought over corners to sell nickel bags of weed, coke and heroin

[@Deadlyaztec27]

Man, that's nothing. Bro, there's parts of Latin America and the Caribbean where people will kill others because they take things out of context, they believe that someone has offended them and the supposed offender dies on the street. There's no chance for an apology, the supposed offender isn't given an opportunity to explain themselves, and the killer doesn't monologue like the movies. Just death.

[@atropa6053]

But they already found 13 firearms this month. Its totally worth the taxes Belize spends on it. They already have everything else anyway.

[@louieDsypo]

@@Deadlyaztec27 that happens in the u.s everyday

[@zoechine7180]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2a5pIuditR3qZo ?

[@PK-uq6fx]

If they see a Bollywood movie they will start catching flying bullets with their hands 😂

[@josephstalin7353]

While dancing

[@wilmerpadilla3418]

Imagine the matrix, try to dodge bullets

[@Sup3rn0va11]

"To much thinking ain't good for the brain" He and those around has done allot of thinking aye.

[@ceedee876]

When you live in an environment like that you’ve got to close yourself off to it

[@aarongdukey]

@@ceedee876 it’s called giving up on yo life. Suicide.

[@napoleonbonerfart278]

They've alloted thinking?

[@justiceforall3973]

I’ve been to Belize! What a beautiful country! Would love to go again. I saw nothing that scared me there but then again I wasn’t staying in Belize city, so I really can’t say for sure how deadly it can be. But outside of the city, I felt it was amazingly safe.

[@lordoftheflies7024]

"We found 13 firearms in this month alone" Wow. Stop and frisk doesn't seem to help confiscate much drugs or guns when applied ANYWHERE in the world, huh?

[@jerichostevens2711]

it's the best they can do within the limitations of the law. they can just say "hey, we're going to ignore all the gun violence". then people would be crying about the police not doing anything about that.

[@philmitchellboxing8661]

It doesn't help when they have a direct import route from the country where guns are more prevalent than anywhere else on earth

[@DePalma.]

I was going to comment that I liked the proactive policing, good comment:)

[@zoechine7180]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2a5pIuditR3qZo ?

[@carmenblackwell963]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2a5pIuditR3qZo .

[@omaryspraggins]

Senseless killing

[@slimeyouout4471]

🤬

[@communismisadisease4498]

No. It's for drugs, all that stupidity can be stopped when the war on drugs ends.

[@oats2949]

@@communismisadisease4498 gangs make all their money from selling illegal drugs, if drugs are decriminalized they will go out of business but they will also be very mad

[@MrLoobu]

They learned from the best.

[@jaimep8358]

maaaaan theyll trip out w this Runtz hahahaha

[@kade9012]

the dominos on the cross really set it in for me.

[@felixaguirre9058]

13 guns in a month?!? Tell me I'm trippin' but goddamn that sounds slow for the capabilities they are given

[@Hosidius]

It was probably a couple days after the month started...

[@morninboy]

not every country is armed to the teeth like Amerika

[@jarardx2312]

They take hundreds of guns from Chicago like every month I think.

[@ryangamboa9157]

Mostly homemade guns as well.

[@addisonneal53]

Because they are making the problem bigger than it is. To sell a narrative that Belize is populated by savages and we are a country without industry. This documentary is bullshit

[@philliplyn2692]

Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

[@SingleTrackMindState]

I’m sorry for your situation

[@Shooting_Stuff]

Damn that ending got me tho😢

[@regulusmuphrid4891]

Not related but fun fact: Belize is a British ex-colony. I say it cuz most people think they only speak Spanish

[@Svveet69]

nice

[@JayJay-iq8en]

Most do speak Spanish

[@InIversal]

It's still under British rule, similar to Canada.

[@JJStayFresh107]

Right, alot of people do speak Spanish but the main language is British Creole, which is a broken English dialect. They gained their independence from Britain in 1981 I believe. Only country in Central America that is considered apart of the West Indies

[@dennisfischer7676]

@@InIversal Saying that is a good way to get an "ackshully" from many Canadians

[@FalaGringo]

Their accents are so similar to a Jamaican accent.

[@beautifullyours]

That’s debatable. My family is Guyanese and they sound similar to me. 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@landodon9247]

I’m Jamaican 🇯🇲

[@thedonplayz9401]

@@beautifullyours it’s not debatable they sound more like Trinidadians or Guyanese.

[@lamborgini86]

So you mean Caribbean ?

[@FalaGringo]

@@lamborgini86 Probably the better option

[@jamesmmcgill]

Mike Ehrmantraut upon arriving in Belize: *Ah sh*t, here we go again.*

[@Allahakbah]

believe it or not my brother was one of them deportees that got deported he cannot return back to the states . its sad

[@noelmaher4633]

When the movie Scar-face came to Ireland, we didn't go out and start Chainsawing our next door neighbors...Lazy headline...

[@shonuff5297]

😂

[@desmond-hawkins]

No need for movies to inspire people to kill each other in Ireland, religion provides all the reasons you'll ever need.

[@editorrbr2107]

What if Scarface was a Prot?

[@nyaa]

its talking about the deportees sir

[@carmenblackwell963]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2a5pIuditR3qZo

[@jaikhaleaf501]

Very misleading 10 minute documentary I'm from Belize grew up in south central I've been living here for the past 11 years. What I will say is that yes gang influence has come from the us but to be specific this all started in California (Original place were bloods and crips were formed) ...Hard working Belizean people located to places all over south La looking for a better life and their children grew up in gang ridden areas one particular area Called the Harlem crips aka rolling 30 crips section of south LA. Those same children grew up and chose gang banging and some got deported. They came down here and influenced a lot of the younger generation and Belize being such a young country(September 1981) they yearned for culture and sad enough that culture was gang culture. So to be more specific no it wasn't a damn movie called colors if anything the movie just made it worse.

[@missceebrownin]

Thanks for the insight, I felt it would have alot to do with identity

[@jacz6645]

This makes more sense than the documentary 😂

[@RoCkShaDoWWaLkEr]

Don't worry most people understand the narrow scope to which the media reports things, Vice is one of the worst for putting politically charged pieces that fit the narrative of whoever they're truly working for while completely ignoring a majority that says otherwise.

[@PerForMSR]

Yes it was from the movie colors. You dont even live in Belize how would you know..?

[@goodvibesforever_]

100% makes more sense

[@Forgeotism]

Dude standing over there by the edge of the porch just like oh s*** im in the shot

[@triple-e427]

"i try not to think" Wow.

[@billk888]

Hey Belize government a tip, make cannabis legal.... No more cash for the gangs, more jobs and money to the people that want to work and love the cannabis.

[@jaimedelgado7529]

"kush more expensiver than hydro" 🤣🤣thats not how any of this works.

[@specialistimmortal5697]

I’m positive the 9 likes were from other children, but since when did you decide to compare what u call Kush to Hydro?? You seemed like your heart leaped the way you put quotes on that nonsense. U a socio?? Go back to the barbarics child🙈😆😂😆

[@thedave7436]

I can tell by the way that cop laughed At 2:47 when he pulled out the bag of weed that they confiscated that he’s definitely smoking that whole bag to the face 😭

[@kngyama979]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWSlopdmoqiinqc

[@amaryahshmaryahukabas8355]

Dam. Nickel Sacks. Haven’t seen that since the 90’s.

[@ShadeRaven222]

Colors was on my shelf growing up in Canada. We got bloods and crips everywhere too.

[@roryhuffman6197]

Lol no we don't, maybe fight amongst each other in the major cities. The Irish mob runs the port in Montreal and the hells angels are there distribution. Bloods and crips in Canada are larping

[@newthrash1221]

These dudes hella confused, fighting over $5 bags of weed lol

[@Joker-gj5tw]

lol thats cap bro they fight over long time beef and ect

[@andilemashego8392]

I would love to meet your producers. ..

[@moontail82]

Man said imma interview looking like tekashi

[@SpiritMover314]

I don’t know why the headline was so much of a “WTF moment” for me……😂🤯😱

[@MADOUT_VPS]

Because you have been brainwashed to think America is bad and other countries can’t think for themselves

[@eyesredfromtheweedismoke1435]

The "blood-crip war" exists in different forms in different places around the world.

[@ponchlocz6609]

It's funny because Bloods and Crips ain't even the oldest gang they're more like a bunch of headless chickens

[@DirtCobaine]

The real OG’s Sparta vs Athens

[@gokublaclivesmatter7151]

WE WINNG ALL OF THEM💙💙

[@Hispanicincel]

@@gokublaclivesmatter7151 crab

[@jonhall2274]

@@gokublaclivesmatter7151 lmfao, the irony of your name, and then killing your own because of another color! 🤦‍♂️😂😂😂 Dumbest ideology right there, "even though we're black, our lives matter too!"(which I agree, no matter the color, life matters) & then go," ayo, that black guy is wearing red, KILL THEM!" 🤦‍♂️🥴😂😂😂

[@BackHandHer]

bruh wtf in Belize the title is wilding😂

[@REMEGORAS]

We did the same thing to elsalvadore, except it was 18th street and MS-13.

[@joesheffield7637]

I’ve been to Belize and the rolling 60s are everywhere there

[@mysticmarshmallow7581]

"What gang are you?" "Blood... and Crip" "But you cant b-" "MIrror on the wall, here we are again"

[@pkexi]

In new york the bloods and crips teamed up

[@pkexi]

@Josie Not sure exactly when or why, within these last few years, you can see it in alot of new yorks drill rap, something to do with them teaming up against the GDs.

[@specialistimmortal5697]

Y’all are irrintellectual - that was what ma gurl sais🍯. If you ever hear somebody say they a blood and a crip u need to put that person on camera.. that’s why people are on Camera. They’re retarded.

[@specialistimmortal5697]

@@pkexi So are you, accepted?? Bloods and Uh Crips are rival um gangs. But ahh, basically uh, it’s a love thing. It means U wanna be with a girl you might be forced to kill.. or u were born one one side and switched to the other

[@pkexi]

@@specialistimmortal5697 What are you talking about lol.

[@PresidentialWinner]

"Too much thinking is not good for the brain. It drives you crazy. I try not to think." Maybe this guy should do MORE thinking.

[@gamalhakim4430]

🤦🏽‍♂️how ?

[@joshwesley5789]

No hydro.... Straight kush.... Seriously??? They know nothing of marijuana.

[@atomictraveller]

your boy should of had a sniff and reported on that to give teh reels

[@carmenblackwell963]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2a5pIuditR3qZo

[@cinsationalcinema1776]

“Mexican Kush”. Aka brick weed from Mexico

[@joeyrosa2244]

some people prefer Mexican kush lime green reggie weed over hydro nowadays. Too many people nowadays trying to pass off CBD delta 8 weed as hydro from cali.

[@cinsationalcinema1776]

@@joeyrosa2244 really? I never heard of this delta 8 stuff until recently. I stay with the top shelf stinky strains that stink up the house while still in the baggy or lil plastic container. I’m too old for brick weed anymore. I put my time in back in my high school days. The mid to late 90’s saw the end of brick style weed for my circle of friends. Everyone wanted lime green seedless nugs. The pressed lime green buds with minimal seeds we called “Econo chron”. Economic Chronic. Pretty much since 2000 and on, it was all seedless and a superb layer of trichomes.

[@Shiftyacrobat84]

The title ain't true

[@MichaelWalker-wu2pq]

So basically Belize needs to elect their own version of President Nayib Bukele.

[@Largepro21]

#LOS Angeles and state of CA has a large 🇧🇿 populations , Much love from your neighbor and friends 🇲🇽 .

[@Sangotayo]

It was heavy here in NY “Harlem back in the early to late 90’s. Crip up to the Harlem Rollin 30’s B Boy and D Rock RIP, they both died a year after being deported back to Belize.

[@Gfromharlem]

Twins had 119th between and 5th and Madison lit. R30. Sip OG Boogie.

[@succubusYT]

"I try to not think" Same

[@MilkmanC]

Dammit, I knew High Top and Frogger weren't done just yet!

[@raytheengineer4082]

As a Belizean I had to laugh when the guy said “expensiver” while trying to speak with an American accent. Jokes aside tho, the US does have a heavy influence on Belizean culture so in a way I’m not surprised but still shocked that this whole gang thing started because a group of deportees watched a movie 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@VegasElement]

Where are the nice upscale areas of Belize?

[@PHlophe]

Ray, most of the world actuAlly say "expensiver", as a native german speaker , i say Teurer , mich means exactly that. And he was never going to have a British accent, half this planet's english influence is american.

[@raytheengineer4082]

@@PHlophe I teach English part time and I can tell you the comparative form of expensive is ‘more expensive’ not expensiver

[@raytheengineer4082]

@@VegasElement it’s there but this video is more focused on the poverty stricken areas of Belize City particularly south side Belize City

[@PHlophe]

Ray, chico what i wrote went over your head entirely . We can tell he is not a native english speaker , he just translated his own language verbatim ( i would have done the same ) what he said did make sense but just didn't match the correct comparative form in english. You really need to make the effort to pay attention.

[@erichharding8777]

I was literally in Belize when this was posted.

[@DJTUK]

Did you make it out alive?................

[@erichharding8777]

@@DJTUK no I died.

[@DJTUK]

@@erichharding8777 damn sorry to hear that bro. May you rest peacefully

[@MisterMoth]

what side is mike ermantraut on

[@robertgorham2985]

I am unsure how this is exportation.