Here's an odd unforeseen consequence of the Columbian drug trade: fishermen along Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast have been been getting rich off of "
white lobster"—cocaine dumped overboard by Columbian drug traffickers that, through a fortuitous arrangement of sea currents, washes ashore.
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posted by Weebot
on Oct 31, 2007 -
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On November 25th, 2006, Valentin Elizalde was killed in the city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Elizalde, a singer of a style of song known as the
narcocorrido, was warned not to step foot in Tamaulipas because of a video for his song “A mis Enemigos,"
which showed footage of (WaPo article) the deaths of drug traffickers from the
Gulf Cartel. In
December of 2006, Javier Morales Gómez was killed in Huetamo, Michoacán while talking on his cell phone. Morales Gómez was the singer for Los Implacables del Norte, another group closely associated with
narcocorridos. The most famous death of a narcocorrido writer/singer has to be
Chalino Sanchez, killed in 1992, and spawning several imitators known as
Los Chalinillos that are still prevalent 15 years after Sanchez's death. (
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posted by sleepy pete
on May 25, 2007 -
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