Mexican drug hitmen kill singer near U.S. border

[superconnected]

Source: Reuters

TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Drug hitmen have killed a popular Mexican singer along with his manager and assistant near the U.S. border, authorities said on Wednesday, the latest murder among musicians who sing "narcocorrido" ballads glorifying drug traffickers.

The body of Jesus Rey David Alfaro, known as "The Little Rooster," was one of six that turned up tortured, murdered and pinned with threatening messages for Mexico's army last week in the border town of Tijuana near San Diego.

"We believe Alfaro had links to the Arellano Felix cartel," said an official with the Baja California state attorney general's office who declined to be named.

The official was referring to Tijuana's main drug smuggling cartel, which is fighting a gory turf war with traffickers from Mexico's Pacific state of Sinaloa, led by the country's most-wanted man, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080220/ts_nm/mexico_drugs_singer_dc

[Liberal Veteran]

1. Oh, great...now the right wing is gonna flip out that Mexicans killed Jesus.

Still....an awful story.

[CBHagman]

3. You write that in response to multiple deaths?

Liberal Veteran wrote:

Oh, great...now the right wing is gonna flip out that Mexicans killed Jesus.

It's happened more than once on DU that I've looked at a thread concerning a news report on violence in Mexico (on one occasion a Mexican police chief was shot his first day on the job), and someone writes a comment similar to yours, or connects a movie plot to the news item. Responses like that leave me feeling as though the Internet is cultivating a really frightening sort of detachment in its users.

[Liberal Veteran]

4. Oh for Christ's sake....lighten up. A certain amount of detachment is required on the net.

If you internalize every bad thing you read about the internet, you are quickly going to find yourself in dire need of strong psychiatric pharmaceuticals.

[Ian David]

5. Gallows humor is a coping mechanism. n/t

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Sheesh, they've had a whole bunch of these.

There was an article in the Washington Post about two months ago about all the killings.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. Some of the music industry in Mexico is financed by drug money

much like drug money financed a lot of gangsta rap here in the US.

[Greyhound]

7. The US music industry has always been a cesspool. The exceptions to that don't last,

check out some stuff about Phil Specter and his career...

That's why I always laugh about how file sharing is stealing for the artists.
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