Vatos Malditos Motorcycle Club

The Vatos Malditos Motorcycle Club was a Mexican motorcycle club based in Tijuana, Mexico on Mayans MC, a spinoff of the FX original series Sons of Anarchy. They make their debut in the season two episode "Tohil".

Background[]

There are at least two charters for the VM, the mother charter being based in Tijuana, Mexico. Another charter was also known to be in the United States, in El Cajon, California.

Hungry for money, the club recruited as many members as they could, barely prospecting, and with no sense of pride or honor, becoming a pack of the worst criminals actively looking for people in dire need to immigrate in to the United States, and taking advantage of the current immigration crisis for their business. The club is extremely inhumane in their methods as they separate families who cannot fully pay their fee, placing them in jails and barely giving them water and feeding them with minimal food. They collect those who can pay and dispose of those that can't.

Season 2[]

When Leticia "Letty" Cruz ' friend Gaby and her family hired the VM to smuggle them, they paid half the money in Mexico, but once in the US they demanded more. Unable to pay, the VM jailed her mother and brother. Leticia tried to provide "moral support" and warned them that she was the daughter of a Mayan, which the VM members laughed at while injuring Leticia's arm.

Gaby ends up at Leticia and Johnny "Coco" Cruz 's home where the two told him what had happened. Coco subsequently brings the issue to the Santo Padre Charter's table where he explains the human trafficking, code violation and disrespect on the Mayans' turf. Che "Taza" Romero shares his own past with the club and how it became increasingly darker under El Palo's leadership. Regretful that this situation was allowed to happen due to spending too much time serving the Galindo Cartel, Presidente Obispo "Bishop" Losa declares the situation relevant enough to warrant the charter's full attention.

The Mayans members go to investigate in town the location of the VM's base, and they manage to find a suspicious building. The Mayans storm the place killing 2 members, capturing one and the last one escaping, while finding imprisoned immigrants, but unable to find Gaby's family. The Mayans, execute the captured Vatos member and ask for help in knowing where they took the rest of the immigrants, and they learn they were taken to jails near the border. And older immigrant guides them to the right place.

The Mayans arms themselves and prepare to attack the place. The VM members inside the garage, begin to provide minimal water and food to their captives in inhuman ways. The remaining member from the previous raid already alerted the VM of the Mayans attack and discussing how they are to be handled, while moving on to dispose of the immigrants that cannot pay their fee. The Mayans storm the place and a gunfight ensues with the VM members trying to burn the immigrants alive. The Mayans successfully murder all the VM members present including an officer but the fire is ignitted. However, the Mayans save the immigrants and find Gaby's family taking them with her to the clubhouse where she is delighted to have her family back, grateful to the Mayans for their help.

"Kukulkan"[]

During a meeting with SAMCRO, the Santo Padre charter would come to learn that their long used port to access the IRA's guns will be closed, forcing shipment to move further south into Tijuana in the VM's territory. The Mayans are not pleased as they reveal to Chibs about their recent feud with the VM. SAMCRO is distraught about this given the VM is on their path to meet, upsetting the Mayans. Allesandro "Domingo" Montez says he is friends with El Palo and that he mentioned no beef, meaning he is willing to negotiate. Chibs suggests they do so as their current conflict is not historical to which the Mayans agree.

The VM members appear as Montez greets El Palo, questioning why he never mentioned starting a problem with the Mayans, to which El Palo deflects the blame to. Chibs steps in cutting El Palo short and tells him to either negotiate or go back to Tijuana due to the urgency of the business. El Palo agrees to sit. Chibs establishes the deal's terms, the Mayans schedule the shipments with the Irish, while the VM stores the weapons and transports them into Northern California, giving 30% of the cut to the VM, while SAMCRO takes 10% of it for the first two years (and gives half of it to the former as restitutions), with $7,000 needed to bribe off the authorities. The VM agrees to it but demands the Mayans pay restitutions as well. Things become heated as both sides lay the blame on the other with Chibs mediating that both of them committed mistakes and urges Bishop to put something tangible. He offers to match the 5% of the Mayans for a year, but El Palo demands 20%, causing an angry disagreement. Chibs steps in and offers the Mayans pay that 5% for two years, leaving everyone in agreement.

As SAMCRO leaves, the VMs pretend to leave but wait it out until night, where they decide to carry out an ambush on the Mayans in revenge and clear violation of the deal, attacking them with Molotov Cocktails and rifles. A violent gunfight ensues leaving Michael "Riz" Ariza severely wounded from gunshots and Coco with a burned arm and an injured eye. Having enough the VMs retreat. The Mayans responded by wiping out the VM.

Kutte[]

Much like the majority of outlaw motorcycle clubs, the VM wear denim or leather cut decorated with a variety of insignia and flashes. The word "Vato" roughly translates to "dude" or "guy" so the club name, "Vatos Malditos" translates to "Cursed Dudes" in English. What makes the VM's cut unique is the symbolism and badge-like flashes. El Palo wears a unique patch stating "El Unico" ("The Only"), this possibly symbolizes that he is the President of the mother charter, it is unknown if there is a separate President's flash, the only other non unique flash we see is a El Cajon VM wearing a "El Pacifador" flash, which translates to "The Peacemaker" which is their title for the Sergeant at Arms which is the member of the club responsible for keeping the peace during templo and events. The Sergeant at Arms is also responsible for the protection of the chapter president. identical to a Mayan title. Rather than having their club flash on the front of the cut, the VM have a flash which reads “Malvivientes”, which translates to “criminals” in English.

Numerous wing shaped multi-coloured badges can be seen decorating the lower half of the majority of VM's kutte's. It isn't known exactly what this means but it could symbolise some type of rank in the club as El Palo wears the most, being the President. The number "69" in gold lettering inside a black circle is also present on the left side of all members kutte's. It is also unknown what this symbolises.