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 -
17 comments
Danzig gets knocked out. Now, I know that most of you probably aren't big on violence, however, I find a little jolt of comfort in seeing
Danzig dropped with one punch. It's like being back in high school and seeing a bully knocked out by a geek he'd been picking on.
(NSFW - violence and language)
posted by fizz-ed
on Jul 15, 2004 -
39 comments
Top Brazilian performers refuse to sing it. A big-city mayor begged radio stations not to play it. Women say it is degrading and dangerous. It's the
Face Slap, an uptempo ditty about a woman who asks her lover to hit her.
posted by crushed
on Feb 28, 2001 -
22 comments
