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.
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.
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..
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.
@@_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
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.
"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.
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.
@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
@@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
@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
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.
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?
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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
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
@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.
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.
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 🙄.
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.
@@Crayfishforever 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😂
@@Crayfishforever 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
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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
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.
"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?
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.
@ 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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
As a Belizean, please don't assume this country is a gang run country. The gangs here are almost exclusively active in certain parts of Belize city. The rest of the country is very safe, the homicide count is low overall compared to entire U.S cities like Chicago.
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.
theres a drug war in northern ambergris cuz of colombian shipments thru the ocean that are supposed to go to mexico, but sometimes gangs that r mostly crips can intercept it
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 🤦🏾♂️
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.
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.
The movies colours actually influenced a lot of gangs around the world. Over here in Australia, back in the 70's,80's and 90's gang culture was really big here because of that movie. People used to rep colours and neighbourghoods over here. And they would dress up like the crips, the bloods and Mexican gangsters.
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
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
@@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
Don't join gangs. My dad grew up around gangs in Baltimore and he never joined a gang. He started his own business when I was 4 and now we live a life that he wasn't able to live when he was younger. It's a person's decision to join a gang.
I’ve learnt to not take everything that vice says at face value as this is just another example of things being blown out of proportion with the intent to sensationalize the country’s problems and not to give actual insight into the crux of the problem
@@gerson7498 it’s mostly the impoverished areas that give rise to crime and gang violence but the majority of the country is fairly safe as long as you know how to stay safe; simple things like get home early and don’t be out late at night will be enough to not have your face on the news the next day
Finally a Vice journalist who actually has some ethics and pride in his work. This is how Vice became more then just a dark alley pop culture newspaper, journalism like this. Covering both sides of the isle, asking questions that aren't leading and biased. Most importantly, he has no narrative, no hidden agenda. Just plain old good fashion story telling.
I just hope that people who aren't from here in Belize know that this type of gang activity only happens in Belize City. In the majority of other districts things are more controlled.
@@saivamshi7740 it is safe you just gotta research about the entire country and you'll find some amazing places to visit. Most people here are friendly and welcoming. The Islands or the inlands are safe and you have access to close places not distant from each other.
@@cecilywaight3440 Concerning how he walked towards the newest victim of gang brutality, I don’t think you’ll have a hard time settling in. You have freedom of privacy, that is not inspired by American Culture research what their former religion called Boston was all about.
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.
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
Feel like I can chime in as a belizian. The country is still for the most part peaceful like someone in the comments mentioned. Just have to be mindful of the places you go like anywhere else.
I have met a few belizians before and I’ve only heard positive things and have heard from people that have visited Belize that it’s beautiful, I’m actually shocked to hear that it has bad areas like this, but I suppose every country has good and bad area’s, but as far as Latin America goes I would imagine that Belize is pretty safe compared to other Latin American countries.
I live in Belize and I can say I agree 100% with what you say. People are very friendly here and there's definitely amazing places that are peaceful to visit and interact with our locals.
"I don't think they're doing enough to keep down the violence..." sounds like a similar issue as the US- experiencing a gang sub-culture problem. The government isn't going to tell your kids how to act, dress, or work. It all starts at home, stop waiting for the government to change things and change the culture your kids are being raised in.
I agree. The polticians wont change anything as long as they are still profiting from gang violence. We have to show a better example to our kids and teach them that there is nothing less cool than being a gangster. It is literally the uncoolest thing. We haf School gangs at my school with Machetes and everything. Each one of those fuckers was a coward! They just they were big because of their large knives and the local gang support.
They gone need to have a "RELATIONSHIP" with JESUS NOT "RELIGION" TO GET INTO HEAVEN. Religion don't get you in heaven. Nicodemus in the BIBLE was religious it's the same today lots of people are religious "talk the talk" but don't "walk the walk" JESUS told Nicodemus he had to be BORN AGAIN(SAVED) to get into HEAVEN ST.OHN 3:3. Read about the Apostle Paul conversion by the HOLY SPIRIT on the road to Damascus this is the epitome of real christianity, the life that the disciples lived that JESUS CHRIST is talking about and unless a man is BORN AGAIN he will not enter HEAVEN and so this is why we want to teach children early the difference between religion and a true relationship with JESUS CHRIST. So this is also my witness to you "you must be BORN AGAIN(SAVED) if you want to enter HEAVEN and not HELL. PLEASE REPENT, GET SAVED AND LIVE OR ESUS CHRIST SO WNEN YOU TAKE YOUR LAST BREATH ON EARTH YOU CAN GO TO HEAVEN AND NOT HELL.
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
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.
@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.
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.
@@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
No, that’s not the point. That’s the poor aspect of being around gang members. It’s all about control over the economy since they live in it. But the poor is milder by it. So it’s kinda like, you move around because you wasted ur money on bein stupid. Like buy a better house??✍🏿🤷🏿♂️
I believe every country has good and bad neighborhoods, but the Media love going in black and brown countries and only show the bad areas and people believe the entire country is like this.
This is just in the real south side of the city. The minute you cross that bridge into the north side your pretty much chillin. Less stress because rent is much higher on the north side. Even buying just the raw land will set you back over 500k depending on size and how close you want to be to the shore line.
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
Real gangsterism is standing against abuses of government and taking care of the community, like Al Capone setting up soup kitchens to feed people the government would let starve to death.
Gang culture? Yes, that needs to go. Rap? No, it doesn’t need to go, it’s a great form of art. What you should do is be a better parent to your children and educate them. It’s pathetic how small-minded people like you are.
Belize is safe, very safe. Been traveling there since 2006, made local friends, and have hung out in the neighborhoods in Belize city, on the south side, playing bones with the locals. Plenty parts of the good ol US of A that are much more sketchier and actually dangerous to be in. In short, no need to be “afraid” of going to Belize. Best nation I’ve been to in Central America, and I’ve been everywhere down there less El Salvador.
It's weird how there's some safe countries in really bad regions. Like central america is hella dangerous, except for Belize, Costa Rica and maybe panama
@@madmanmadlad2876 You are stupid, he said "Since 2006". Now I get that this is before you were born, but you still understand how english works right?
@@DineroSucio754 Safe? Yeah just because you don't encounter violence yourself in some tourist hotspot in your week long vacation does not mean there is no violence committed in that country. Look, the stats don't lie. Nearly every country in Central and South America is on the tipity top of the most murders in a country list. Here are the 10 countries with the highest homicide rates: El Salvador (82.84 per 100k people) Honduras (56.52 per 100k people) Venezuela (56.33 per 100k people) United States Virgin Islands (49.26 per 100k people) Jamaica (47.01 per 100k people) Lesotho (41.25 per 100k people) Belize (37.60 per 100k people) Saint Vincent And The Grenadines (36.46 per 100k people) Saint Kitts And Nevis (34.23 per 100k people) South Africa (33.97 per 100k people) There are several countries, however, that have exceptionally low homicide rates. The ten countries with the lowest murder rates are: Japan (0.2) Singapore (0.2) China, Hong Kong (0.3) Luxembourg (0.3) Indonesia (0.4) Norway (0.5) Oman (0.5) Switzerland (0.5) United Arab Emirates (0.5) China (0.6)
@@PresidentialWinner dude I'm South American tf are you talking about, Belize and Costa rica still have the lowest murders in central america, quit assuming who I am like a fucking dumbass
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.
@@petergriffin8498 Na I watched a Ross kemp documentary on Belize an I genuinely thought it was the worst place on earth after watching it, vice did a good job of making it look corny
@@yodaspank618 I swear the comments on this video are killing me. This one dude said he wants to see the rise of a Druglord called Sauron and this dude right here talking about the avengers. Belize is weird for this tho, killing eachother over an eight of some mexican reggie is not the way you should do this.
I visit Belize often and can tell you that this is happening in a very small area of Belize City. This is a beautiful country overall and people the are peaceful & friendly. That weed is just a front for the cocaine that passes through there from South America by land & sea. Thats what the killing is truly all about from these gangs.
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
they're trying to imitate the movies, reminds me of the Colombians guerrillas who kidnapped US soldiers and asked them to teach them to fight like they do in the Matrix
There’s a lot of Belize natives and descendants in LA. A lot of them are Blood and Crip so of course when they go back home or get deleted, they bring the gang culture back to their native country.
Having family from Belize City I can personally say unless you are part of the life you won’t be hurt, now you know collateral damage does happen but trust me you’ll be good if you mind your business.
Vice always lying😪 You are referencing the movie colors , even though Los Angeles has a HUGE Belizean Population, that go back and forth?! 🤣🤣😩😩VICE is so pathetic.
It's not "U.S. inspired", it's African American inspired and then, only a small percentage of African Americans. Stop blaming the U.S. for the violent culture of a small minority and place the blame on the gangs themselves.
I think he may overlook the fact that the gangs would still exist, even if the deportation and movie never happened. The movie only determined the names of the gang, the gangs would develop regardless
I don't think you understand what he meant, which is that the number of gang violence went up when these people were deported and the fact that the movie played such a huge role in the problem.
@Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho What does stealing have to do with any of this. Non sequitur... In fact they are earning, and they are beefing over drugs and the territory where they literally make their money. Still stupid though.
Gang war in the city over $5 bag of weed, that BS and 2nd colors doesn't mean nothing to gangs no more. Most of the time its old beef and it gets pass down to the younger ones growing up.
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
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🙈😆😂😆
In L.A the Harlem R30's Crips(Dirt Gang) and the Fruit Town Brims both have a lot of Belizeans. This is similar to the U.S. exporting 18street, MSx3, Latin Kings to Latin America and even Spain. There are also Rips and Damus exported to the Pacific islands.
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.
@@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.
Go read @Misfit Actual comment section.. You can get beat for stealing a Reggie, but if you think a Reggie Guy is a stick, you can be slapped for that too. “Lmao,” stay with the ops yo
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Belize: We need food and supplies
USA: Best I can do is bloods and crips
LMAO, RIGHT 😩😆🤣
bro the video was just uploaded 7 min ago u cant even have watched it completley
@@jordandavies7789 Wow, you must be the funniest man alive
Lol😂😂😂
Yeah just disregard the $10 million in aid we give them every year
As a Belizean, I can say that gang violence is usually kept between themselves only. So the key is really just to stay outta of hotspots which are limited to small neighborhoods, and mind your business. Compared to our neighbors Mexico and Guatemala this is nothing. Belize is still a relatively peaceful place. Wouldn't trade it for the world.
Exactly that’s like looking at Chicago and saying the entire United States is like that
Thank you for your insight. Everybodys on here with there opinions yet theyre all talking behind theit comfy keyboards abroad. Stay safe brotha
Thank you for your comment. I’m trying to join you. Looking at buying in PG. Safe travels!!
This right here is correct. For example in Mexico the cartels will mess with you regardless
Belize ±30 murder / 100 000 / year.
Chicago ±18.2 murder / 100 000 / year.
Canada ±1.7 murder / 100 000 / year.
Its all in your perception, you feel safe because you know your surroundings but in fact violence must be pretty high to surpass Chicago and be 15x that of Canada. Here I can walk in the worst ghetto of the province on a saturday at 11pm and i wouldnt be worried for a second. I do not know a single person who owns a firearm outside of hunters with hunting carbines.
“Apparently he was the target”
*Stands right next to him*
Lol well if they only let out 5 shots I’m sure it’ll be a while till those 5$ bags can fund more bullets
Lmfaoo 😂😂😂😂
@@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.
Bro... these Vice reporters don't give aF 🤣💀
I'm convinced one of the qualifications for the job *has* to be "suicidal".
@@brooktrout2154 they definitely have bullets to spare considering they get weapons from the mexican cartel
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..
Thanks to GTA
Street life am from deez streets we run deez streets, we sell drugs to your kids because we Hella uneducated
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.
@@_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
@@liama4199 learn to spell. Thanks.
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.
Hell yeah ,it’s schwag
Straight brick reggie. Not good at all 😂
It might be strong due to it being ditch weed laced with synthetic cannabinoids.
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
@@jerrycowa3279 they’re quick to judge because you could literally see how bad the product was with your own eyes….
"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.
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.
i laughed very hard at this xD
Bad for the anxiety
Some of us live this everyday
yooooooooo fr
Latin America: factions and cartels
Belize: local US Gang Sets
makes sense...
@Pecker Dúnling San Patricio Space Dolphin Brigada what? I didin't get it
@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
@@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
@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
@@tufab3494 Tudo bem irmao then(?, Argentino here, sorry for misunderstanding
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.
Actually not everyone's situation is the same. Some have to join or parish. Others have a choice.
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?
If only things were this simple.
you’ve obviously never grown up in that environment, traveling somewhere and being born somewhere are 2 completely different things.
@@future140 you couldn't be more wrong, but that's ok, to each his own.
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.
As a Belizean living now in the US ,I couldn’t agree more with you.👍🏼
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.
@@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.
@@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
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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
Untold stories finally been told
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.
Streets and “blocks” they don’t even own… it truly is sad
Gangbanging over Owned government property.
@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.
I'm sure the Blood / Crip feud will eventually make it's way to Mars when we colonize it . 🤣
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.
💙💙
Drive by shootings on space ships LMFAO 😂
@@notknown1 lol laughing at the peasants or what ?
In la blood & crips not that deep crips beefing with crips same with the bloods
USA-"Do you guys have any indoor organic live soil hand trimmed small batch top colas?"
Belize-"We have mexican kush"
White ash brick weed lmao and the hash I bet is 90u
🤣😂
we have much more weed lmao
It’s the same issue as El Salvador and Honduras. Los Angeles: exporting gangs since the 80s.
And we can’t properly deal with them. Those guys are like ISIS
Mostly 18st and MS13
@@angelgonzalez5307 those people need jobs and resources..
@David jones How can you compare gangs with Terrorist organizations? 😂
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.
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.
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 🙄.
@@kolynmckenzie7184 Read the first sentence of his comment blind ass
@@plasmicats2000 😂😭😭😭
@@kolynmckenzie7184 Eediat
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.
Somebody send Belize a DVD of Lord of the Rings. Maybe they'll start LARPing instead
LEL!
They’re already larping acting like crips and bloods
@@Crayfishforeverit literally says that they pulled the idea from the Movie “Colors”
@@Crayfishforever 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😂
@@Crayfishforever 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
What kills me is how young so many of these dudes are.
That's because if you are older, you have a family to protect and not just youself
most are like 18 or sum, in san pedro where i live there were two gang members both 18 who killed some drug dealers
When they placed the dominos on his casket, absolutely heartbreaking.
fr
I spent so much time looking for the pizza…
@@LukeWayneProductions not funny
@@WalterWhite-hv7mk yes it is
@@WalterWhite-hv7mk Actually it is
This life is an exhausting cycle of pain, confusion and dread.
Its lit
@@barelyawake868 lit like hell.
@@JK-co1tw 🤪🕺
@@JK-co1tw you alright bro?
@@GAsh0012 I guess I have to be.
Crazy , they really waging war over some Reggie Mexican weed
Fr tho
That "weed u be buying comes from mexico aswell💀
@@xbumboo not the point. This brick reggie miller. Theres good weed and bad. This that charles Barkley
@@xbumboo 😂😂 actually it doesn't
Mexico always gets it cut
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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
@@milascave2 Hello Milascave, don't you have any friend who can talk to me in Belize? I am currently traveling here
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.
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
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.
But they already found 13 firearms this month. Its totally worth the taxes Belize spends on it. They already have everything else anyway.
@@Deadlyaztec27 that happens in the u.s everyday
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"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?
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.
It doesn't help when they have a direct import route from the country where guns are more prevalent than anywhere else on earth
I was going to comment that I liked the proactive policing, good comment:)
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Imagine sending dvds of Bollywood movies to belieze. 😂😂😂
They are gonna get wild after that.
😂 dancing like Indian moves and moving the head like Indians, when they talking and the accent too .
_Inb4 they watch Gangs of Wasseypur_
It wouldn't matter they want to follow American black culture not foreign culture
😅
Can we just appreciate the fact that he's literally risking his life to give us these videos
It's good that they didn't watch The Purge...
Explain
For real!
@@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
@@JimmyCrackCorn_ ? Because then they would try to re-enact the purge in real life.
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...
"too much thinking hurts the brain"
-Gang member
🤦🏽♂️
@Umnumzaan vicious cycle is too real
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
Iknow right he really said that
If he just thought alittle harder he probably wouldn't be a gang member.
Based on a movie 😂😂😂
“Too much thinking hurts the brain”
Summed it all up right there my man. 😂
overthinking = anxiety = feeling like youre going crazy
some traumas are too much to even think about
Seems like you missed the point of what he said
Lol
@@bermymon99 Brews killin brews errywhere smh shalom ach
Was just going to comment this.... what the hell
@ 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.
The Crip named “withheld” seems like a good guy
Lol
With a name like that you would think he’d keep his mouth shut 🤫 😂
Become rich now! Don't wait
Not related but fun fact: Belize is a British ex-colony.
I say it cuz most people think they only speak Spanish
nice
Most do speak Spanish
It's still under British rule, similar to Canada.
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
@@InIversal Saying that is a good way to get an "ackshully" from many Canadians
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.
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
i wish i had parents
This ain't your blog, bucko.
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.
Thanks for the insight, I felt it would have alot to do with identity
This makes more sense than the documentary 😂
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.
Yes it was from the movie colors. You dont even live in Belize how would you know..?
100% makes more sense
“Too much thinking is bad for the brain eh? That’s why I don’t think.”
He's speaking in relation to what just occurred (the shooting). The syntax and context is different
they don't "don't think". they CAN'T think.
They don’t think very much over there and it shows by their actions.😂🤣
Study long and you study wrong💯
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.
As a Belizean, please don't assume this country is a gang run country. The gangs here are almost exclusively active in certain parts of Belize city. The rest of the country is very safe, the homicide count is low overall compared to entire U.S cities like Chicago.
I Guess you dont see the statistics of it being one of the countries with the most homicides per capita.
Hey man, you live in Belize city now?
@@aurelio_marino I live in San Ignacio, it's in the Cayo District, in the western side of the country, west of Belize City
@@aurelio_marino Are you in the country currently?
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.
theres a drug war in northern ambergris cuz of colombian shipments thru the ocean that are supposed to go to mexico, but sometimes gangs that r mostly crips can intercept it
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 🤦🏾♂️
Where are the nice upscale areas of Belize?
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.
@@PHlophe I teach English part time and I can tell you the comparative form of expensive is ‘more expensive’ not expensiver
@@JesusIsLordLasVegas it’s there but this video is more focused on the poverty stricken areas of Belize City particularly south side Belize City
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.
The movies colours actually influenced a lot of gangs around the world. Over here in Australia, back in the 70's,80's and 90's gang culture was really big here because of that movie. People used to rep colours and neighbourghoods over here. And they would dress up like the crips, the bloods and Mexican gangsters.
How in the 70s, when colors came out in the late 80s
Lmao 🤣
I'm picturing lots of people with mullets nd thongs, throwing gang signs
I don't even think Sean Penn was Spiccoli munchin on his crispy waves yet in the 70s LOL
In Australia? Gang members? Good thing you guys surrendered your guns to the government, right?
13 guns in a month?!? Tell me I'm trippin' but goddamn that sounds slow for the capabilities they are given
It was probably a couple days after the month started...
not every country is armed to the teeth like Amerika
They take hundreds of guns from Chicago like every month I think.
Mostly homemade guns as well.
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
It’s crazy I’m half Guyanese 🇬🇾 and it’s amazing how belizeans talk just similar to us
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
If they see a Bollywood movie they will start catching flying bullets with their hands 😂
While dancing
Imagine the matrix, try to dodge bullets
Senseless killing
🤬
No. It's for drugs, all that stupidity can be stopped when the war on drugs ends.
@@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
They learned from the best.
Don't join gangs. My dad grew up around gangs in Baltimore and he never joined a gang. He started his own business when I was 4 and now we live a life that he wasn't able to live when he was younger. It's a person's decision to join a gang.
I’ve learnt to not take everything that vice says at face value as this is just another example of things being blown out of proportion with the intent to sensationalize the country’s problems and not to give actual insight into the crux of the problem
For real they are corrupt. There always pushing the same adjenda. And acting like there against it. But it makes them $
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Belize isn't even that violent bro. It's only a few streets on the Southside of the city. Nowhere else is dangerous
@@gerson7498 it’s mostly the impoverished areas that give rise to crime and gang violence but the majority of the country is fairly safe as long as you know how to stay safe; simple things like get home early and don’t be out late at night will be enough to not have your face on the news the next day
What you said fash
Finally a Vice journalist who actually has some ethics and pride in his work. This is how Vice became more then just a dark alley pop culture newspaper, journalism like this. Covering both sides of the isle, asking questions that aren't leading and biased. Most importantly, he has no narrative, no hidden agenda. Just plain old good fashion story telling.
Imagine starting a decades-old gang conflict over a fucking movie.
Yall don't get the context it's because of deported Belizeans who were already in gangs came back and formed their own gangs
bro thinks its team rumble
I just hope that people who aren't from here in Belize know that this type of gang activity only happens in Belize City. In the majority of other districts things are more controlled.
Is it safe for tourists to visit? I've always wanted to go to belize.
Definitely the other parts of the country are very peaceful and amazing to visit.
@@saivamshi7740 it is safe you just gotta research about the entire country and you'll find some amazing places to visit. Most people here are friendly and welcoming. The Islands or the inlands are safe and you have access to close places not distant from each other.
Thanks for the understanding, in other districts your discipline mustn’t be as loose as the Downtown you say??😆
@@cecilywaight3440 Concerning how he walked towards the newest victim of gang brutality, I don’t think you’ll have a hard time settling in. You have freedom of privacy, that is not inspired by American Culture research what their former religion called Boston was all about.
Very misleading title. It should be titled, "How deported felons adopted an American movie for the gang names/Fueds.
Exactly.
Exactly. But Vice is a leftist organisation.
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.
but but USA bad. didn't you get the memo?
@@xvsghshsgsgdhdhy5862 as much as you’re saying it jokingly, the USA is pretty bad. I’d say educate yourself.
I know what it's like my friend was a blood and he lost two friends being shot in the head, it's truly not a world anyone should be apart of.
What’s crazy is that a lot of LA gang members are Belizean themselves
Right, that's how it got there fr.
"we dont sell hydro, we sell kush." lol. Reminds me of my middle school days.
We have hydro kush
Kush is a strain hydro is method of growing some peoples kids lmao
They dont know they're ass from a hole n the ground
I was cringing as well haha
@@ntroxell83 thank god somebody else knows what they are talking about
Colors was on my shelf growing up in Canada. We got bloods and crips everywhere too.
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
When the movie Scar-face came to Ireland, we didn't go out and start Chainsawing our next door neighbors...Lazy headline...
😂
No need for movies to inspire people to kill each other in Ireland, religion provides all the reasons you'll ever need.
What if Scarface was a Prot?
its talking about the deportees sir
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"To much thinking ain't good for the brain" He and those around has done allot of thinking aye.
When you live in an environment like that you’ve got to close yourself off to it
@@ceedee876 it’s called giving up on yo life. Suicide.
They've alloted thinking?
Feel like I can chime in as a belizian. The country is still for the most part peaceful like someone in the comments mentioned. Just have to be mindful of the places you go like anywhere else.
I have met a few belizians before and I’ve only heard positive things and have heard from people that have visited Belize that it’s beautiful, I’m actually shocked to hear that it has bad areas like this, but I suppose every country has good and bad area’s, but as far as Latin America goes I would imagine that Belize is pretty safe compared to other Latin American countries.
@Falhawk73 Guatemala always puts down Belize.
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I live in Belize and I can say I agree 100% with what you say. People are very friendly here and there's definitely amazing places that are peaceful to visit and interact with our locals.
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Their accents are so similar to a Jamaican accent.
That’s debatable. My family is Guyanese and they sound similar to me. 🤷🏾♀️
I’m Jamaican 🇯🇲
@@beautifullyours it’s not debatable they sound more like Trinidadians or Guyanese.
So you mean Caribbean ?
@@lamborgini86 Probably the better option
"I don't think they're doing enough to keep down the violence..." sounds like a similar issue as the US- experiencing a gang sub-culture problem. The government isn't going to tell your kids how to act, dress, or work. It all starts at home, stop waiting for the government to change things and change the culture your kids are being raised in.
I agree. The polticians wont change anything as long as they are still profiting from gang violence. We have to show a better example to our kids and teach them that there is nothing less cool than being a gangster. It is literally the uncoolest thing. We haf School gangs at my school with Machetes and everything. Each one of those fuckers was a coward! They just they were big because of their large knives and the local gang support.
They gone need to have a "RELATIONSHIP" with JESUS NOT "RELIGION" TO GET INTO HEAVEN. Religion don't get you in heaven. Nicodemus in the BIBLE was religious it's the same today lots of people are religious "talk the talk" but don't "walk the walk" JESUS told Nicodemus he had to be BORN AGAIN(SAVED) to get into HEAVEN ST.OHN 3:3. Read about the Apostle Paul conversion by the HOLY SPIRIT on the road to Damascus this is the epitome of real christianity, the life that the disciples lived that JESUS CHRIST is talking about and unless a man is BORN AGAIN he will not enter HEAVEN and so this is why we want to teach children early the difference between religion and a true relationship with JESUS CHRIST. So this is also my witness to you "you must be BORN AGAIN(SAVED) if you want to enter HEAVEN and not HELL. PLEASE REPENT, GET SAVED AND LIVE OR ESUS CHRIST SO WNEN YOU TAKE YOUR LAST BREATH ON EARTH YOU CAN GO TO HEAVEN AND NOT HELL.
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
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.
"What gang are you?"
"Blood... and Crip"
"But you cant b-"
"MIrror on the wall, here we are again"
In new york the bloods and crips teamed up
@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.
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.
@@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
@@specialistimmortal5697 What are you talking about lol.
Isn't the point of gang banging, to make money and leave the ghetto? Not just go to different ones?!
No, that’s not the point. That’s the poor aspect of being around gang members. It’s all about control over the economy since they live in it. But the poor is milder by it. So it’s kinda like, you move around because you wasted ur money on bein stupid. Like buy a better house??✍🏿🤷🏿♂️
Sometimes i feel grateful to be living in a low crime place. It feels very sad watching this 😔
Me too
@@NobodyQuio this is the worst part in Belize. I live in a low-crime area in Belize
I believe every country has good and bad neighborhoods, but the Media love going in black and brown countries and only show the bad areas and people believe the entire country is like this.
This is just in the real south side of the city. The minute you cross that bridge into the north side your pretty much chillin. Less stress because rent is much higher on the north side. Even buying just the raw land will set you back over 500k depending on size and how close you want to be to the shore line.
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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
This Gang/Rap culture needs to go, even wealthy innocent kids imitate gangsters it's actually pathetic.
Some of the most feared gangsters were from a wealthy background, don't fool yourself.
Real gangsterism is standing against abuses of government and taking care of the community, like Al Capone setting up soup kitchens to feed people the government would let starve to death.
There hasn't been any gang/rap culture since the 90's
@@kloak3n I was going to comment that exact same thing ;but opted to go another way.
Gang culture? Yes, that needs to go. Rap? No, it doesn’t need to go, it’s a great form of art. What you should do is be a better parent to your children and educate them. It’s pathetic how small-minded people like you are.
Damn, Crips and Bloods going world wide.
@@EsauistheCaucasian Damn, never knew yhat
@@EsauistheCaucasian Ok
Apparently it was in London for a bit to😂😂
I’ve been to Belize and the rolling 60s are everywhere there
"I try not to think."
Indeed, and that's a large part of the problem here.
If the civilians are surrounded by dangerous gangs. Why do the police take their weapons away, sounds like they need them.
We dont have a gun rights act sadly.
@@jaydominguez7389 Mexico and Guatemala do and they aren’t doing any better
Belize is safe, very safe. Been traveling there since 2006, made local friends, and have hung out in the neighborhoods in Belize city, on the south side, playing bones with the locals. Plenty parts of the good ol US of A that are much more sketchier and actually dangerous to be in. In short, no need to be “afraid” of going to Belize. Best nation I’ve been to in Central America, and I’ve been everywhere down there less El Salvador.
2006?? Are you live in the past? This is 2021!!! Wake up old man
It's weird how there's some safe countries in really bad regions. Like central america is hella dangerous, except for Belize, Costa Rica and maybe panama
@@madmanmadlad2876 You are stupid, he said "Since 2006". Now I get that this is before you were born, but you still understand how english works right?
@@DineroSucio754 Safe? Yeah just because you don't encounter violence yourself in some tourist hotspot in your week long vacation does not mean there is no violence committed in that country. Look, the stats don't lie. Nearly every country in Central and South America is on the tipity top of the most murders in a country list.
Here are the 10 countries with the highest homicide rates:
El Salvador (82.84 per 100k people)
Honduras (56.52 per 100k people)
Venezuela (56.33 per 100k people)
United States Virgin Islands (49.26 per 100k people)
Jamaica (47.01 per 100k people)
Lesotho (41.25 per 100k people)
Belize (37.60 per 100k people)
Saint Vincent And The Grenadines (36.46 per 100k people)
Saint Kitts And Nevis (34.23 per 100k people)
South Africa (33.97 per 100k people)
There are several countries, however, that have exceptionally low homicide rates. The ten countries with the lowest murder rates are:
Japan (0.2)
Singapore (0.2)
China, Hong Kong (0.3)
Luxembourg (0.3)
Indonesia (0.4)
Norway (0.5)
Oman (0.5)
Switzerland (0.5)
United Arab Emirates (0.5)
China (0.6)
@@PresidentialWinner dude I'm South American tf are you talking about, Belize and Costa rica still have the lowest murders in central america, quit assuming who I am like a fucking dumbass
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.
Twins had 119th between and 5th and Madison lit. R30. Sip OG Boogie.
I've been to Belize city several times. I never had a problem but I knew the potential was there. Beautiful country.
this is embarassing for everyone involved vice too
yea. this was a weird mini documentary. this was about gang violence in there but it doesnt seem so violent that they needed to report on it
@@petergriffin8498 what you were expecting the avengers to show up with the violence?
@@petergriffin8498 Na I watched a Ross kemp documentary on Belize an I genuinely thought it was the worst place on earth after watching it, vice did a good job of making it look corny
@@inside1283 belize isn't even bad. This is a few streets in the city. Everywhere else is very safe
@@yodaspank618 I swear the comments on this video are killing me. This one dude said he wants to see the rise of a Druglord called Sauron and this dude right here talking about the avengers. Belize is weird for this tho, killing eachother over an eight of some mexican reggie is not the way you should do this.
I visit Belize often and can tell you that this is happening in a very small area of Belize City. This is a beautiful country overall and people the are peaceful & friendly. That weed is just a front for the cocaine that passes through there from South America by land & sea. Thats what the killing is truly all about from these gangs.
Tourist areas don’t count
No hydro....
Straight kush....
Seriously???
They know nothing of marijuana.
your boy should of had a sniff and reported on that to give teh reels
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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
they're trying to imitate the movies, reminds me of the Colombians guerrillas who kidnapped US soldiers and asked them to teach them to fight like they do in the Matrix
Lol what??? I need to google this lol
Columbia Cocaine is helluva of a drug😂😂😂😂
Maybe they were mocking them because you can’t be from the matrix and get caught
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#LOS Angeles and state of CA has a large 🇧🇿 populations , Much love from your neighbor and friends 🇲🇽 .
There’s a lot of Belize natives and descendants in LA. A lot of them are Blood and Crip so of course when they go back home or get deleted, they bring the gang culture back to their native country.
Perfect example on how entertainment media from the US negetively affects the brain.
It's ok I was laughing the whole time
Average IQ in Belize is 84. A person with an average cognitive ability wouldn’t ruin their life over some movie.
@@Pixel5564i mean 300k is low
Having family from Belize City I can personally say unless you are part of the life you won’t be hurt, now you know collateral damage does happen but trust me you’ll be good if you mind your business.
We get collateral damage here in the states too.
It's not like that anymore tho....kids are getting killed now
Right as long as you mind your business and not engaging with gang members you’re good in the city
and this is still safer than Chicago or Baltimore
Vice always lying😪 You are referencing the movie colors , even though Los Angeles has a HUGE Belizean Population, that go back and forth?! 🤣🤣😩😩VICE is so pathetic.
Ongod fam colors have nothing do with the situation
People need to get their facts straight When it comes to my Belize
Mek we look simple outta road
Lazy journalism. Its sounds ridiculous. that they would try to bring that up.
It's not "U.S. inspired", it's African American inspired and then, only a small percentage of African Americans. Stop blaming the U.S. for the violent culture of a small minority and place the blame on the gangs themselves.
The amount of people in the comments who were unaware that Belize's national language is English is a little disturbing. Not going to lie.
its bc Belize is not that important so people don’t really keep a eye on it
Do you sincerely believe people to know about a country that is very small in size and insignificant at the global stage?
@@abhirajarora7631 Google is freee
@@abhirajarora7631 Ummm...yeah.
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wow exceptional journalism keep up the great work; illuminating the aspects of society that world turns a blind eye to.
I think he may overlook the fact that the gangs would still exist, even if the deportation and movie never happened. The movie only determined the names of the gang, the gangs would develop regardless
I don't think you understand what he meant, which is that the number of gang violence went up when these people were deported and the fact that the movie played such a huge role in the problem.
believe it or not my brother was one of them deportees that got deported he cannot return back to the states . its sad
Crips and bloods in Belize is the dumbest thing I’ve read in my whole life 😂 😂
@Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho What does stealing have to do with any of this. Non sequitur...
In fact they are earning, and they are beefing over drugs and the territory where they literally make their money.
Still stupid though.
A lot of the people in gangs from LA are from Belize, a lot of them came in the states as childern and probably got deported for crime.
Think about how MS13 and 18st spread to El Savador and Mexico.
and I thought crips and bloods in the US was stupid and pointless,...
It came from the deportes. Hell, they even have ms13 and 18th street in Belize now too
Gang war in the city over $5 bag of weed, that BS and 2nd colors doesn't mean nothing to gangs no more. Most of the time its old beef and it gets pass down to the younger ones growing up.
Makes more sense
As a belizean... dis documentary is pure bullshit...
A lot of wars started because of selling nick bags and expansion of territory to sell said nick bags more territory more money
If it wasn't over colors it'd be something else thats just b the way life is lol
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These dudes hella confused, fighting over $5 bags of weed lol
lol thats cap bro they fight over long time beef and ect
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
Divide and Conquer. They did that in the prisons.
"kush more expensiver than hydro"
🤣🤣thats not how any of this works.
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🙈😆😂😆
In L.A the Harlem R30's Crips(Dirt Gang) and the Fruit Town Brims both have a lot of Belizeans.
This is similar to the U.S. exporting 18street, MSx3, Latin Kings to Latin America and even Spain.
There are also Rips and Damus exported to the Pacific islands.
There's also belizean n 18st
how can u blame a country for individual choices
I was literally in Belize when this was posted.
Did you make it out alive?................
@@DJTUK no I died.
@@erichharding8777 damn sorry to hear that bro. May you rest peacefully
“Mexican Kush”. Aka brick weed from Mexico
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.
@@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.
Bruh they killing each other over a stick of Reggie Lmaoo
Just be grateful you’re not in their shoes struggling.
@@NatureBoy736 they make their own strugfles
Yall you punks do is talk an dont know
Go read @Misfit Actual comment section.. You can get beat for stealing a Reggie, but if you think a Reggie Guy is a stick, you can be slapped for that too. “Lmao,” stay with the ops yo
@@NatureBoy736 man stfu go cry
That's not exporting it... that's burning the fuse from both ends...