Slides: Gangs of Santa Fe (On MySpace)

By Maassive on July 15th, 2009

This week, SFR reveals that Santa Fe’s gang turf has spread to the Web with more than 60 youths openly declaring gang affiliation on their MySpace pages ["Gang Sign of the Times"].  The Web is naturally ephemeral and, no doubt, many of these pages will change or switch to private.

This slide show of screen captures and photo downloads illustrates the prevalence of gangs in Santa Fe, particularly on the West Side, the territory claimed by Barrio West Side, West Side Locos and Mann St.

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After the jump is a list of gangs and cliques documented by the Santa Fe Police Department’s Gang Unit.

Documented mainstay gangs in the

Santa Fe Metro area

  • West Side Locos 13; primary area, Hopewell, Mann, and St. Michaels drive
  • Mann Street 13; a clique of WSL 13
  • Barrio West Side; primary area, everything west of north Saint Francis up to Osage Avenue.
  • APT (Alto Park Thugs); Clique of Barrio West Side
  • West Side 700 Block; Primary area 700 Block of Alameda and San Francisco Streets.
  • Sureno 13; Primary area, Airport Road, Jaguar Drive, are known to frequent areas all over Santa Fe
  • MLC (Mexican Locos Clique); Clique of Sur 13.
  • MCK (Mexican Clique Killers); Clique of Sur 13.
  • VGS (Vagos); used to clique up with Sur 13, but have since started their own street presence in the Espinacitas and Third Street areas. They are also based out of California.
  • SSL 13; Primary area Highway 14, have committed numerous crimes in the City of Santa Fe to include robbery and murder.
  • Latin Kings; don’t really have a specific area of turf but have engaged in several incidents in the Airport Road corridor. Founding members are from the Chicago area.
  • La Raza; clique of the Latin Kings.
  • Raza 13; primary area Airport Road
  • Juggalos and Juggalettes; are the very true followers and fans of the Insane Clown Posse. Are documented as a national gang. Members have been found wearing clown make up and carrying hatchets. Unknown number in Santa Fe.
  • Norte 14; Primary area Airport Road.
  • North Side Locos; Primary area of Chimayo and Espanola, do frequent the downtown area of Santa Fe, and have committed numerous crimes in the City of Santa Fe.
  • VL 13 (Vatos Locos 13); primary area Airport Road.
  • Riverside Locos; Primary area Riverside Mobile home park
  • Tierra Block; Primary area Tierra Real Mobile home park
  • Santa Boyz; Located sporadically around Santa Fe.
  • SBC (Santa Boys Crew); Primary area El Dorado and the East side of Santa Fe
  • 201 Crew; clique of SBC
  • BTR Crew ( Big Time Racks) Tagging Crew
  • Bandidos; Outlaw Motor Cycle Gang, does have two Santa Fe Chapters.

    44 Responses to “Slides: Gangs of Santa Fe (On MySpace)”

    1. rob

      It used to be two gangs in SF. Now there are over a dozen. We can thank the Mayor’s and councilors who voted for sanctuary city status for this nightmare. Once, again, the unintended consequences of a good deed gone wrong. You can also bet that a bunch of these gangbangers were a product of our public schools. Look at the SFPS……what a failure and 8-0% of the kids speak Spanish. We are a city that is like a miniature version of Mexico.

    2. BARRIOLOKOTE187

      HELL GEAH BIG BAD BARRIO BLOCC MST PURO WEST SIDE LOKOS PHUKK ALL HATERS MOST HATED WICKED WAYS

    3. Rob DeWalt

      um, that wasn’t my comment by the way. I’m not even gonna dignify the first commenter with a justifiably preachy — if not vitriolic — response. But I will say this: The gang bangers living in my neighborhood, and even on my street, are AMERICAN-BORN ADULTS who speak English and have high school diplomas. One of the reasons some of these kids feel marginalized is because … well…we marginalize them. To no end. As a former youth-gang mediator in Seattle, I can also say that some folks may complain that putting the names and actions of gangs out there actually empowers the gangs. It doesn’t, really. In fact, ignoring them only emboldens many them further, especially the younger members. And until the public takes grasp of how broad the gang situation is in their community, they will continue to act incredulous when en they read in print what is in front of their own eyes every waking moment. All you have to do is look. And not look away.

    4. Maassive

      Whoa. What was gang mediation like?

    5. Rob DeWalt

      I was young, too…18. Going to the University of Washington. As part of the S.H.A.R.P. community (Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice), I ran into some interesting folks on the street. One of them was “Thomas R,” the son of a Black Panther activist, who fell in with the Black Gangster Disciples. THomas’s father was serving a life sentence, and THomas was trying to dig his way out of the BGD by becoming a dancer. My partner and I had regular jobs and an apartment, but we were street punks, for long stretches, living in squats. We befriended Thomas after he was beaten by racist skinheads who had migrated from Vancouver, BC. When BGD got word, they came to us, and we sat down to set some boundaries and offer advice on protection in the streets for Thomas. It was an endless cycle of violence — most of it driven by race and territory — but what we found was, working with younger members of the gangs AND the skins, there was more good to be had by having a third party who didn’t wear a badge. I have NEVER heard of gang mediation in this town. Sure, gangs still exist in Seattle, but there are people on the street level trying to make the peace…bridge the cultural gap. If you want to affect change in Santa Fe, in terms of gangs, mediation is gonna be key.

    6. Maassive

      Intense. How did you leave it in the end?

      I wonder if Councilor Rosemary Romero’s ever dealt with gangs in her capacity as a mediator.

    7. Rob DeWalt

      I left for Olympia, Wa. in 1990, after my partner was attacked in our home by a racist skinhead. We continued mediation with BGD, but there was a lack of trust from law enforcement. We were, effectively, meddling, they said. Last I heard, Thomas left the street life. He died of an aneurysm less than six months ago, but he was out of the gang environment when he did.
      I’m not sure about Romero’s track record with mediation in relation to gangs. I DO know that, as far back as 1999, the New Mexico Center for Dispute Resolution provided training publications for school-based gang mediation involving parents and teachers. But I haven’t heard of any street-level mediation, that is, outside the school system, in Santa Fe. THe SFPD Gang Unit may have mediators, but I’m not sure if they’re private contractors, or trained officers. Interestingly, following the shooting at Dennys in ALB recently, Lt. Rob Smith, the head of the ALB Gang unit, said this about the MS-13 gang, which is implicated in the violent crime:
      “The game plan is zero tolerance – step on ‘em and squash ‘em. That’s what they deserve, that’s where we’re at with this gang right now.” It’s hard to affect mediation between gangs, and between gangs and law enforcement, when men in a place of authority reduce the problem — I mean the solution — to outright extermination.

    8. Brigette Russell

      One of the reasons some of these kids feel marginalized is because … well…we marginalize them.

      So we marginalize them? Who, precisely, is “we”? What, precisely, have I been doing as I work, pay my bills, raise my kids, mind my own business, that has been at least in part responsible for these adult U.S. citizens with high school diplomas choosing to live a life of crime?

    9. Rob DeWalt

      By we, Brigette, I was talking about the media and the law enforcement community. But to be sure, looking the other way as a whole community is also part of the problem. I suppose, however, that for some people, looking the other way and pretending the problem doesn’t exist gives them some peace of mind and a bloated sense of self-importance within the community. So yaay.

    10. Misty

      It’s a disgrace that alot of these young kids or older “gang members” are of Mexican, Hispanic or Latin decent. At least it appears that way on their myspace pages. They USE our spanish minority name to show pride but it just gives us a BAD name. We are better than that. If they want to use our spanish name they should use it in a better way than down grading who we are by causing trouble. The only way to show it is not to hurt each other, you should be united to do your community some good. Volunteer, help those in need, improve the areas you live in and don’t let it look like a trashed dump. Use your big gang group to do something good. That will show that the spanish minority group is worth sticking up for and something to REALLY be proud of.

    11. WSLGANG

      that fight fuck the system.westside locos cant be stopped.fuck the rest..its all bout the west ese….

    12. Jessi

      I am with Brigette, I do exactly the same thing, work, pay my bills, try to raise my son right. Why shouldn’t I look the other way, why should they be my problem to fix. Violence is learned, they have learned this way of life and could have chosen another path. I very much doubt most of them have high school diplomas. Also because I have the intelligence to live my life without violence and fighting and choose not to make these gangs my problem I have a bloated sense of self-importance—How does that even make sense? Also as an FYI, I grew up in a very large extended family with violence and poverty, my parents choose to work thier butts off and try to show me a different way of life, way different than how many of my aunts and uncles were choosing to raise thier children. Huh, funny, under the circumstances I have grown into a responsible adult, I am not in a gang and I hold a Master’s degree—funny how you can change life if you choose to.

    13. Maassive

      Well, to play devil’s advocate, what about as a public safety issue: You’ve got kids who go to school who may encounter gang violence or drugs; you’ve got homes and cars that could be the subject to theft or vandalism. Now, you could ignore it, but eventually it will affect you, whether personally with a carjacking or indirectly with a downtown smeared with graffiti or home values that kerplunk because it’s not a safe place to live.

      The question is: Do you step up and try to address the problem personally…or do you just dump it in the hands of government?

      I know Brigette’s a conservative…. what’s better, taking personal responsibility or bigger government?

      Again, this isn’t a personal opinion, just a question I’m tossing out there.

    14. WSLocs

      real talk we run santa.

    15. Lil D

      WTF ALL THIS STUPID SHIT! I DNT APPROVE OF U GUYS POSTING MY PICTURES UP ON HERE! OR MY MYSPACE! AND PHOTOBUCKET!!!!!!!!!!!! WELL WHO CARES WE AINT BOTHERING U LET US LIVE OUR LIVES AND YOU LIVE YOUR EH! YOU DONT NO WHAT HALF OF US YOUNGTERS BEEN THREW EH… I GRANTEE U !

      YOU ANT STOP OUR WAYS ALA EH IT OUR LIFE NUH HOMIES..

      WESTSIDE LOKOS BIG BAD 13 .:5o5:.

      YOU CANT JUDGE US!! ONLy GoD CAN JuDGeS US!

    16. Lil D

      WTF ALL THIS STUPID SHIT! I DNT APPROVE OF U GUYS POSTING MY PICTURES UP ON HERE! OR MY MYSPACE! AND PHOTOBUCKET!!!!!!!!!!!! WELL WHO CARES WE AINT BOTHERING U LET US LIVE OUR LIVES AND YOU LIVE YOUR EH! YOU DONT NO WHAT HALF OF US YOUNGTERS BEEN THREW EH… I GRANTEE U !

      YOU ANT STOP OUR WAYS ALA EH IT OUR LIFE NUH HOMIES..

      WESTSIDE LOKOS BIG BAD 13 .:5o5:.

    17. Lil Dreamer

      Hate all u Want U cant stop us and u DONT phaze us!
      But the thing that bothers me eh! is u guy posting all my pictures up and al my primos and my brothers frm dat WESTSIDE LOKOS! eh! that messed up

      yup live your life and we’ll live ours eh! judge us all you want but we aint living to please u or nobody! you guys better delete your lil slide show of us that just not right it aint!!!!

      that disrespect u guys just doin it on purpose but whatevers it dnt phaze us

      WSL Xlll 5

      WESTSIDE LOKO 13. N wat?!

      Purple and Black all day every day!

    18. Lil Dreamer

      hAhA! This shit wack! You guy better Delete all this shit your lil slide show of ME AND MY BROTHERS!
      That bugs me eh! you have no right postin our shit up and da internet! Why do guy care so much aboutours life our ways ALA VE LIVE YOUR LIFES AND STOP GETING IN OURS!

      NONE OF U PPL HAVE THE RIGHT 2 JUDGE ME OR MY BROTHERS OR SISTER FRM DAT WESTSIDE.! THAT NOT RYTE! “ONLY GOD CAN JUDGE US” !!

      IDC WHAT ANY1 GOT2 SAY U CANT STOP US. WE HAVE RESPECT U DNT NO US TO JUDGE US! RESPECT COMES 1ST! BUT NA U DISRESPECT US WE GUESS WHAT

      WESTSIDE LOKOS 13 N WHAT! Big BAD 5o5 SaNTa ToWn!

      Keep Hating ppl U dnt no what we all been threw i Granttee U! so stop judgein us and delete ur Slide show its a waist of ur time! AND STOP HACKIN ON2 MY PHOTOBUCKET AND MY MYSPACE ACCOUNT ! THAT WRONG!!! EH!!!

      .WSL Xlll:.

    19. Lil Dreamer

      HEY I THOUGHT I TOLD U TO DELETE THIS SLIDE SHOW EH WTF!

      YOU THINK YOU HAVE A STORY TO TALK ABOUT NOW? WATCH WHEN MY FAMILY GETS A HOLD OF U EH!
      And We’ll Give you a Better Story!!

      YOU have NO right to Post Our PICS UP EH!

      THIS SHyT IILEGAL!

      .:WSL Xlll:.

    20. Rob DeWalt

      I’m actually surprised and disgusted that some of the posters here refuse to look outside their comfortable lives and realize that some kids need a hand, some guidance, some mentorship. Not everyone is provided the same opportunities in this life, no matter how much self-esteem they harbor. And you would think someone with a Master’s degree might have learned a little bit about the real world outside the Ivory Tower as an adult in order to earn the title.
      I pay my bills, I help raise kids that aren’t even mine, and still find time to try to be a part of the solution to the violence that surrounds us every day. It might not be at arm’s length, but it’s there, and every time someone turns their back on the “problem,” it gets worse. We certainly don’t need bigger government to confront the issue, but we certainly don’t need the mindset of “me and mine and that’s all there is,” either. I’d rather die in the gutter shaking the hand of promise than living in a palace with the empty embrace of regret. That’s what separates people who care about people, and people who only care about themselves. Which one do you want to be?

    21. Maassive

      Lil Dreamer – Why would this be illegal?

    22. yodaddy69

      fuck tha police

    23. 1Ese.Loko3

      I agree with al da homies.

      fuck the police
      Fuck this slide show.
      FUck da Haters..!

      WESTSIDE LOKO 3CE y Que!

      Ha cuz lil dreamer probally thinks this shit illegal cuz they DONT have NO right Or OUR Permission to B posting up our flickas ey it is not right eh!

      wtf what is the whole ponit of this Stupid pathetic Slide show?? Tell me !

      Wsl Uno Threce U cant stop us…

    24. Lady Joker

      This is some bullshit ey!Fuck The Police!Fuck This Slide Show!You need to mind your own damn bisness!You dont know us,you dont know what we’ve been threw!So dont fucken judge us!0nly G0D can judge us!You really just need to pay attention to you own life and stay the fuck out of ours!People think they can stop gangs and gang activity well they need to think again!They aint ganna stop us!
      .:~South*Side*Locos~:.

    25. TOKER

      WEST SIDE LOCOS SANTA FE NEW MEXICO 505

    26. 1Sleepy3

      Orale!..
      Chill Chill Now Homies!
      There Just Trying to Get to You Guys!So dont even let the Hoodaz mess with your heads eh! iTs Our Time to Shine! Lets Let these LIL Gang Units Post our Flickas up and Show the WHOLE WORLD Wat the Big Bad WESTSIDE LOKOS is About! iTs Not Like all Of us Are Bad Nuh But they Dont No That They Just ALL JUDGE us based On our Appearance and our Additude Que No?! But they dont No The Story Behind Our Lifes the Story why we act and dress the way we do. & That Not even it either eh! We have more to us then how we life our life iT Jst No1 Takes the Times To get to No the Real us que no Lil Homies?! Keep ur Head UP Dnt even Trip Cuz NOT even The System aint Got shit on us!
      and For Lil Jon “Chuco” He a Good Kid eh! Aint Nobody have a say in that! He made mistakes but that kid he wanted to become somethin in life but everytime he tried somethin or some1 got in the way of his dreams! n I DNT GIV A FUK WAT ANY1 SAY CHUCO IS A GOOD FUKIN KID HE HAD A HEART! N For yako spenca he had it coming but i feel for ur guys loss nuh PURO RESPECT !!

      Im Just saying u fukin ops cant say Nada cuz u Aint no nada & Lil Homies Let them do wat them want wit ours pics! “OUR TIME TO SHINE”!

      WESTSIDE LOKO! 5o5! SaNTa ToWn!

    27. Cr33p3r

      WestSide Lokos!ALTO PARK! Y Que!

      Hey Now..
      I like that HomeBoy

      “ITS OUR TIME TO SHINE” you Got that Right!

      Hey Now we all aint that Bad. For the Lil Homies Let them learn from there Mistakes! But simon chuco i good dam kid ! i miss dat fuker but u putos took him away!

      it Not like the surenos never took one of us out cuz they have eh! they have! fukd up shit in this gangster life! Pero sabes que “U Liv By the Gun U die By The Gun”
      So simon yako had it coming pero stil ! 2 worngs dnt make a right! i no i no! But Everyone makes mistakes once in their life que no?! Nd For God he forgives but he wont forget u gota earn his trust i Pray for chuco that god wil 4give my lil caranalito N hIS sins eh every night eh! so does all the Homies! pero fuk u haters! fuk the sur!
      i aint in2 that gang banging shit cuz i grew outa of it but “eye 4 an eye” que no! westside til i die! with that PURPLE pano hangin on my side

      But i Respect Whoever Respects me! but the sur/ Na fuk them they killed my lil primo eh!
      Na but jst cuz i dnt bang hard dnt mean I wont have the Homies back cuz i do to the fullest!
      So spenca a Lil Homies nd HomeGirls
      “OUR TIME TO SHINE”

      .CREEPER:.

    28. TOKER

      FUCK WHITE PEOPLE RASICT BITCHE$.THE COPS HERE ARE BITCHE$ TRUCHA HOMIES.FUCK THAT SURRAT.U NOSE Y HE GOT HIS WIG SPLIT.PERO PURO RESPECTO TO W3STSID3 LOCO$ DE SANTA.

    29. ANDY

      FUCK THE COPS BIG BAD WESTSIDE 13 AND WHAT BITCHES

    30. JLowe

      Hey y’all, the newspaper ain’t the cops. In fact, newspapers frequently report on the misdeeds and corruption of police departments. Just sayin.

    31. DntEvenTrip

      FUCK YAKO!!!HE HAD IT COMING! SIMON! ALL HE DID WAS RUN HIS MOUTH LEFT N RIGHT
      SIMON THEY ACT AS IF THEY NEVER TOOK1 OF THE BROTHER OUT B4!FUCK SURATAS! WSL Xlll

      WESTSIDE LOKOS 13..
      NEWS REPOTERS ? COPS? GANG UNITS?
      SHiT…. FUCK THEM ALL!!!

    32. nino loko

      orale ey west up lokos.. first off fuck tha policia and fuck any leva that aint a west side loko. so wat if them unknown mother fuckers post our pics up, yo lil homies we gettin recognized and known yo. they cant even touch us they just write about our reputation in tha papers n shit u noh, wat tha fuck they goina do to us! they sure cant stop us!! SO FUCK WHAT THEY SAY AND FUCK WHO THEY TELLING!!! west out ese’s

    33. Lil Dreamer

      Simon! brother let em posted our flickas up! we untouchable…!

      dam i miss Brother Chuco! Fuck the haters! Jon my brother “our brother” he did what he did pero he still a good kid at heart eh! He still a kid learning his rights from his wrongs! what can we do about it! Jon in ours prayers! He shouldnt be locked up for soo long eh! fuck the cops..ala I dont care what ANY1 say or Thinks Chuco is Our carnalito por vida!

      Wsl Xlll

    34. lil grumpy

      West up lokos. First off Id like to give my respect to tha homies and home gurls down wit tha big bad west side lokos! We run this bitch loc! We cant be stopped we got a lot of mutha fuckin street soldiers down wit this clicka! Wont be long till we run santa!! Secound id like to say is FUCK THA POLICE! Screw them and all ther currupt bull shit! Saying I cant wear my purple n hang my rag down, just cuz they pack a gat don’t mean they can push a young G around! I aint afraid of none of u muda fuckas! I knw how corrupt u fuckas are! I knw wat goes on behind tha seens! U are hating on us and otha people just cuz of wat neighborhood we from and all that! Harassing us and if we talk bak u want to bust my brown ass! But shit if u try that shit with me itz goina be a different seen, I wont be surprised if grab my 9mm and unload it on u putos. Till ever blue shirt turns red yall bitchs knw wat I said I want all ya crooked muda fuckas dead! I read tha papers and listen wat goes on I knw how tha so called PD work shit. So don’t try n fuck a vato over, its freedom of speech muda fucka! And yall could give a fuck less wat and who gets shot or killed! Like that poor guy who got killed and u treat it like just another minority saying u handled it proper n sugar coating shit!. That aint true bitch he died Saturday and u didn’t even fuckn knw! Making up sum bull shit story! And u cops joking about it! That’s messed up yo! Ha but we all be laughing when ur tha bitch dead on tha pavement out lined in white! Yall bitchs aint shit to me but a puto wit a badge and a gun, but take off tha gun belt and well go at it punk and we goina fuck you up! So fuck tha law and the P..O..L..I…C..E.. and any mutha fucker who disagrees!!! So wit all that said id like to close this message and send all my love out to tha homies and home gurls that have been down with WSL since day one.. lil homies keep on blastin! That’s g shit locs keep it real and stay on top! We run tha streets and fuck a hater! We familia si! We down to ride n aint afraid to die for our hood. West side tha best side! Keep it G homies!! N too all yall cops ha ha see ya around buddy boy hahahah fuck yall cops im out! WEST OUT loc!

    35. 1..LooNey..lokO..3

      orale ah wats up locos! WSL 13 till i die n fuck who ever hate on this clicka! i agree wit lil grumpy yo! them cops a racist and prejaduce! like it was said by Eazy-e the police are fuckin racist not only toward black people but toward brown and native! just cuz they got authority to arrest us for no reason dont mean shit! im still a G and am always goina be a G and aint shit goina change it! so fuk tha cops crooked ass cowards! and wats u wit dis cops taking pics from tha homies myspace n postn them to try n make a point like that goina stop up from rising! WEST SIDE FO LIFE! WSL Xlll! much respecto y love to all tha west side familia out there! keep it gangsta.

    36. TOKER

      PURO AMOR TUH THE CARNALS SHB-700BLK WSL TRECE OR B-DUB.WE RIDE TOGETHER AND FUCK ALL $UR RATAS 187 THATS RIGHT.TUH ALL THE SOILDIERS THEY CANT KEEP US DOWN.SINCE A CARNALITO TILL NOW WSL TILL THE CASKIT DROPS.KEEP UR HEAD UP WATCH UR BACK AND STAY STRAPPED LOCOS.

    37. SURSIDE.X111.SANTA.TOwN

      FUCK w3T3Z PURO SUR UNO TRES WE RUN SANTA ALWAYS AND FOREVER wETEZ CAN ONLY PULL A TRIGGER AND RUN BITCH ASS BUSTERS FUCK mann STREET FUCK 700 FUCK wSl YOU FOO’S AINT GOT NADA ON US SURENOS RUN THIS TOWN STEP UP BITCHES YOU FOO’S DONT EVEN KNOW WHY YOU GUYS BANG 13 BITCH ASS RANKERS FUCK YOUR LIL PINK RAGS AND FUCK YOUR HOODS S-U-R POR VIDA EH HOPE YOU DNT LIKE IT.. AZUL Y GREASE QUE VO
      SUR3NOS TR3C3 R1FA Y CONTROLA

    38. SURSIDE.X111.SANTA.TOwN

      AND FUCK THAT wET3 JOHN BITCH ASS COWARD SHOOTS AND RUNS WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND ESE SUR UP

    39. TOKER

      surenos are snitches 187 fuck sewer ratas.come to the west side its war see whatsup i keep a srap on my side

    40. TOKER

      santa to spana vallewe uniting against all u pinche wetbacks fuck u net bangers we cant be stopped west side loco X3 till i die ill have rukas ride on u bitches ur not shit.coming from toker

    41. toker

      ya and those robberies wont stop.lol fuck the cops.

    42. Goofy

      it seems that if your brown in Santa your pinta Bound. Plus santa the oldest capital was founded by chicanos before white people came dubbed our culture with the term gangbangers (we call ourselves familia) alto park is my family and theyve taught me more than any school, and have supported me more than any government, the only thing the hurra are good for is beating your ass so thats why we run, apt is its own cliqa even though i have familia in the bws, i dont know all these other gangs excuses but im just doing wat my grandad did my father did and ill be damned if someone tries to tell me my son cant! so westside locos 13 apt Goofy out

    43. mikey R

      its all about ssl 13 fuk the rest and were down 2 bang, rob, kill, steal and much more SOUTH SIDE LOCOS 13 ALL DAY!! FUK THE REST

    44. toker

      SSK 187 SUMMMER TIMES HERE


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