Organization name: Los Muertos

Founded by Mexican foreign workers who were uprooted from their native region to work in Montréal, the Muertos are a massive gang who lord over the district of Greater Griffintown and who basically rule the Griffintown Complex, an unfinished megabuilding on the northern shore of the Lachine Canal. The Muertos are an ethnic gang who protect the latino communities within their turf. Muertos are immediately identifiable through their religious or Dia de Muertos themed tattoos, including flowers and skulls, but their most distinguishing feature is their “calaveras”, armored face masks which are painted and modified to evoke neon sugar skulls.

The majority of Muertos are of Mexican heritage, but the gang does not disallow other ethnic groups from joining, as long as they integrate with their Mexican cultural practices. Muertos celebrate many Mexican holidays and customs as a way to preserve their stolen culture. The Muertos ensure that the SPVM never unjustly attacks their community, often through violent retribution.

The Muertos are deeply embedded in the Greater Griffintown area as well as most of the Sud-Ouest. Most of the bars and nightclubs of Greater Griffintown are fronts for the Muertos. Their main sources of revenue are drug trafficking, weapon and cyberware smuggling and vehicle theft.

The Muertos exert influence from the Griffintown Complex, a self-contained Combat Zone which they mostly control, through which they smuggle foreign weapons, cyberware and drugs. The explosive rise of the Muertos on the gang stage has led many to believe that they are being backed and supplied by Latin American Cartels.

2011

• Kiroshi purchases several small Mexican towns in the region of Veracruz and forces most of its inhabitants into a work contract. Kiroshi ships their 7,000 new workers from Mexico to Montréal to work in a new cyberoptics factory.

2014

• Montréal declares bankruptcy. The construction of the Griffintown Complex is paused indefinitely.
• Kiroshi withdraws funding from their Montréal cyberoptics campus and breaks their workers’ contracts. They do not send their Mexican workforce back home.
• The Mexican foreign workers organize and riot, causing great damage to the Kiroshi factories and surrounding properties. Police forces violently squashes the riots.
• Los Muertos are formed in response to the Kiroshi Riots.
• Most of the abandoned Mexican workers and early Muertos resort to squatting in the Griffintown Complex.

2016

• Los Muertos reach 1,000 members from a mix of the original Kiroshi foreign workers and other sympathetic allies.
• Gang war in Greater Griffintown: the old reigning gang, the Blakjacks, are dismantled. Hundreds die.
• The population of the Griffintown Complex reaches 20,000. All inhabitants are considered illegal squatters.

2018

• The population of the Griffintown Complex reaches 30,000.
• The Consulate of Montréal orders the squatters evicted. They hire a Militech private security to support the SPVM in this endeavor.
• The Muertos Riots begin. Squatters and sympathetic residents take to the streets to protest the eviction order. The protests turn violent as Militech contractors open fire on the rowdy crowd. Greater Griffintown becomes a warzone for the next 4 months.
• The Muertos use their connections to smuggle explosives and anti-vehicle weaponry in Montréal. At least 3 Militech AVs and 5 Militech armored vehicles are destroyed by the Muertos.
• After hundreds of civilian, gang, police, and corporate casualties, Militech demands a contract renegotiation with the city.
• The Consulate of Montréal repeals the eviction order.
• The Muertos reach 3,000 members and are the uncontested leaders of the Griffintown Complex.

Los Muertos are a community protection gang who feel a great responsibility to protect their own from most of Montréal’s powers, including cops and corporations.

They do not automatically reject those who are not from their community but will always act distant and remain suspicious and distrustful. In other words, Muertos might be warm and friendly, but they’ll always keep you at an arm’s length.

Muertos enjoy it when you address them in Spanish and when you respect their culture and faith. They harbour a sense of community for family and friends and will typically avoid harming those of their own community unless it becomes absolutely necessary. They protect each other above all else: while self-interested Muertos exist, they know better than to directly act on their impulses. All of Los Muertos’ criminal activities are directed against those outside of the community of the Griffintown Complex.

“Calaveras”, the neon ballistic facemasks they wear, are the most prized possession of each Muertos. Wearing it while doing work for the gang is a privilege and an essential part of being a Muertos. The calaveras of dead Muertos are preserved as mementos by the gang. Stealing a calavera is a bad idea: Muertos will find you and they will get it back.