Wiles
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3rd Mexican Musician Found Dead
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8TCO1LG4&show_a...
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Ken Cooke
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I thought this would have ended with Valentin "El Gallo" Elisalde, but this seems to be getting worse. How sad...
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bajaboolie
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So bizarre. All this for gang notoriety?? (I assume?) I don't get it--is there something I'm missing?
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Sharksbaja
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No you didn't miss anything. It's them their friggin brains are missing.
Music is a bad thang?? Only in Mex it seems. Is it because music is such an important element of Mex culture and society? I would think they would
cherish a ballad about their(cartels) misdeeds.
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bajajazz
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The NY Times reports this morning that 13 Mexican musicians who specialize in "grupero" music (Mexican country music) have been killed in the last
year. The most recent victim was a rising star of grupero named Sergio Gomez, who was kidnapped, brutally tortured, mutilated and then strangled in
Michoacan after finishing a concert on December 2nd.
Various reasons have been proferred as to why musicians -- of all people -- should be selected for systematic murder, but the most likely seems to be
the shadowy relationships that exist between the music world and the narcotics-trafficking underworld. This was true in America during Prohibition
(because the bootleggers owned the nightclubs) and I'm sure we all recall the famous story of a Mafia gunsel making Tommy Dorsey "an offer he couldn't
refuse" to spring Frank Sinatra from a contract old blue eyes had outgrown.
Mexico is clearly at a crossroads and it remains to be seen if President Calderon has what it takes to get the Mexican underworld under control.
Right now, substantial parts of Mexico -- particularly the northern border states -- resemble a cross between America's "wild west" and the Chicago of
Al Capone.
I have read that the graft from the drug trade in Mexico amounts to 6 billion dollars a year. I can't vouch for the accuracy of that figure, but if
the graft alone is being counted in the billions of dollars annually, I really don't see the authority figures who are on the take doing anything
substantive about solving the problem. And that applies equally to the authority figures on the other side of the border who are also profitting
from the status quo.
Regarding law enforcement, it is an absolute given -- a fundamental fact of life you can take to the bank -- that massive crime simply cannot exist
without massive corruption on the part of the officials at all levels of government whose sworn duty it is to prevent it.
Think about it.
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Hook
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"Various reasons have been proferred as to why musicians -- of all people -- should be selected for systematic murder, but the most likely seems to be
the shadowy relationships that exist between the music world and the narcotics-trafficking underworld. This was true in America during Prohibition
(because the bootleggers owned the nightclubs) and I'm sure we all recall the famous story of a Mafia gunsel making Tommy Dorsey "an offer he couldn't
refuse" to spring Frank Sinatra from a contract old blue eyes had outgrown. "
You forgot about the connection between the rap music culture and the drug culture that continues to exist in the US right now.
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debindesert
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That's Entertainment
I don't think this is exclusive to Mexico. Bollywood in India. No one makes a movie or records a record without the “underworld” getting their take.
Several big-name artists are now living their next lives because they defied the Indian Mafia/Gangtas/Hoods/Thugs..
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