3p!
Welcome back to the fold.
Chica Psychology and Spirituality:
I believe:
1. Regardless of her learned hardness, her emotions are still alive. Buried, perhaps...but still alive.
2. Chemistry is as important as money, particularly with new ones.
3. Not all human kindness will be viewed by the chica as weakness or fast-cash opportunity. Many chicas respond to kindness and caring; their work is hard, their emotions and thought processes complex and the pressures great. Treating her with a bit of tenderness will allow her to respond to you as a woman.
4. Gringo players are generally clueless about the Latina mindset. This is a culture where men are expected to take control in social and sexual situations. Gringos are too damn accomodating to the desires of woemn, and while decisions should be made with tenderness, to quote Pres. G.W. Bush, American men should be "the Decider" in these situations.
5. Evil, true evil is rampant in the Gulch. Open your blind eyes, my sighted brothers. It's not just the dope, the crime, the slavery... Darkness permeates the entire scene. It is only by the fact that we males are ruled by Mr. Johnson that we can ignore it. In this millieu, is it surprising that some women stay relatively honest and kind, but others turn into rapacious, vindictive andmanipulative putas?
That's my take. Oh, and I wouldn't start out any negotiations with the preconception that every woman in the Gulch is my adversary. I prefer to think of her as an intimate service provider with professional experience: I don't fall in love with my doctor, I don't presume my hair stylist is evil or manipulative, I don't view my tax preparer as being a liar (well.... depends on the lie and who she's lying to...)

In fact, I trust most C.R. chicas more than my own lawyer.
Any characterization of an entire group of people as "being" one way or another is by its nature, automatically false .