Posted on 06/28/2010 12:15:07 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
Sergio "El Shaka" Vega, a Mexican musician famous for his songs about drug barons, was murdered Saturday night while driving in his red Cadillac to a concert in Sinaloa state in northwest Mexico.
Only hours before the attack, the 40-year-old Mexican singer had publicly denied rumors that he had been murdered, reports the BBC.
"It's happened to me for years now, someone tells a radio station or a newspaper I've been killed, or suffered an accident," Mr Vega told entertainment website La Oreja according to the BBC.
...the musician was gunned down by unknown men who were following him while he was en route to his concert, says the BBC.
The BBC reports that according to the passenger's accounts to the newspaper El Debate, shots were fired from the truck at Vega's car. One of the bullets struck and injured "El Shaka," rendering him unable to drive. The vehicle crashed and, as Vega lay clinging to life, the gunmen "finished Mr. Vega off" with shots to the head and chest.
According to the BBC, Vega's songs, called "narcocorridos," celebrate the lives of drug barons, and as a result may have made him a target for rival drug gangs.
Police have not apprehended the gunmen.
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Narco rappers earn cred with songs of death (rap music funded by drug cartels)
CNN ^ | June 23, 2010 11:40 a.m. EDT | Karl Penhaul
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Cano tells me they compose many of their songs by special request...
“With some of the songs, they send me lists and they ask for a song about this and that and we do it. But I don’t anything about how the narcos work,” Cano grins. And he’s certainly not about to tell me who “they” are.
But listen to the music and it’s clear. “They” are members of the Gulf Cartel...
There are clear signs the Gulf Cartel has now gained supremacy — and one of those signs is that Cano and Blunt dare publicly to sing the praises of just one side.
Nor will they ever apprehend any gunmen.
Mexico has become a cesspool of drug gangs, fighting for supremacy alongside a government that is likely complicit in their dealings.
“The reports of my death were slightly premature.” Mark Twain would be laughing.
He no shaka no more...
Eventually, things will deteriorate to the point in Mexico, where the only answer will be to send US troops in to occupy the country.
And Obama and his ilk, want to keep the border WIDE OPEN.
Sounds like someone got tired of all the rumors.
Yes, my conspiracy theory is that one of the reporters who’d been told he was “wrong” decided to get even.
El Shaka all shook up!
The mobsters write the songs for the dope pimping singers in Mexico (who are beholden to one gang or another).
Everyone knows that an artist’s recordings go up in demand when he dies “young”.
Follow the money. They may have wacked him themselves.
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