Rodolfo Alvarado "Cheyenne" Cadena was a Mexican-American mob boss and a prominent figure in the Mexican Mafia prison gang called La eMe.
15 Facts About Rodolfo Cadena
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The family later moved to Bakersfield, California, where Rodolfo Cadena attended East Bakersfield High School.
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Rodolfo Cadena became a member of the Varrio Viejo Gang.
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Rodolfo Cadena was incarcerated at Deuel Vocational Institution after he and Richard Ruiz, who would become one of the founding members of La eMe, stabbed a man to death outside of a dancehall called 'Salon Juarez' in 1959.
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At the time of his conviction, Rodolfo Cadena was only 16 years old.
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The story goes that Cheyenne Rodolfo Cadena arrived on the lower yard and was met by a six-foot-five, 300-pound black inmate who planted a kiss on his face and announced this scrawny teenager would now be his 'bitch.
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Rodolfo Cadena continued to run the Mafia's activities and began to look beyond the walls of the prison, envisioning a statewide monopoly of crime.
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Rodolfo Cadena struck an uneasy alliance with George Jackson and the Black Guerrilla Family and became active in Latino political organizations like the Brown Berets.
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Rodolfo Cadena made overtures to unite La eMe with the rival Nuestra Familia.
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Rodolfo Cadena could have saved himself by requesting Protective Custody, a move that would have shown weakness to the way of life he had fought and killed for.
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The night before his death, Rodolfo Cadena had received multiple death threats and knew that when he left his cell in the morning, he would die.
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Rodolfo Cadena was stabbed repeatedly with shanks, and beaten with a pipe by Nuestra Familia assassins.
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Rodolfo Cadena was stabbed an estimated fifty times on the tier and thrown off a third story tier onto the concrete floor below and stabbed another dozen times.
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Rodolfo Cadena's murder sparked an era of gang warfare within the California penal system.
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Rodolfo Cadena was the basis for the 1992 movie American Me, in which, Montoya Santana, a character based upon Rodolfo Cadena, was portrayed by Edward James Olmos.