Last December Seeing Red AZ wrote that Mexico’s bloody cartel war is reflected in a popular folk-music called narcocorridos, or drug ballads — which does not condemn criminality, but in fact, romanticizes drug kingpins, glorifying violent battles of drug-traffickers, their shootouts, brutal operations and inter-gang betrayals. One of the best-selling albums of last year, “The Power of Chapo,” glowingly describes the exploits of a fugitive drug lord.
It is now being reported that over the weekend, one of the most popular of such Mexican singers, Sergio Vega, 40, was killed in a barrage of gunfire in the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa. He was on his way to perform at a local concert.
Known as “El Shaka,” Vega was famed for performing the subculture narcocorridos, or dramatic ballads commissioned by drug cartels. However, musicians who become associated with one narco group by writing narcocorridos for them, can also become targets of rival narco groups.
Vega’s death adds to the string of grupero musicians – including Valentin Elizalde and Sergio Gomez — who are said to have been caught up in the violence among drug trafficking empires which are at war with the federal government and each other.
A culture worth importing, right Mr. McCain?
Glad you directed your question to John McCain, Vince. He has always been supportive of amnesty and this nightmare with a beat would be invading our children’s music world. If I hear him say “we’re all God’s children” one more time, I’ll scream. Apparently this man who has spent decades in our most esteemed halls of lawmaking has no respect for our laws or national borders.
It’s th’ “messikin” version of O.G. Gangsta’ rap! Same exact thing…just a different country! Maybe McCain & th’ head muslim are dreamin’ about th’ tax revenue generated from th’ possible music sales!
Good take, Doc! Bullseye!
Just watched the president lie and lie and lie about who the illegals are and McCain will only enable this President further. The criminal illegal aliens are here and it is our fault for allowing our laws to be ignored by those in office. Why wouldn’t the President support illegals? Where is his birth certificate?