Posted on 12/17/2009 4:38:49 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican prosecutors are requesting that Texas-based norteno singer Ramon Ayala be held pending investigation after he was detained at a drug cartel's Christmas party.
Attorney General Arturo Chavez announced Thursday that a judge is considering the request and that any possible charges would be determined by the investigation.
Ayala, a Mexican accordionist who lives in Hidalgo, Texas, has been detained in federal police headquarters in Mexico City since the Dec. 11 military raid at a mansion outside the mountain town of Tepoztlan where three gunmen were killed and 11 others suspected members of the Beltran Leyva cartel were detained.
"In the course of their (the musicians') statements, there were a series of indications and a series of contradictions that made us change their status from that of witnesses to that of subjects of investigation," Chavez told reporters.
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This is so juicy. Unvision news says they think he was laundering money. Surprise. I have been leaving messages on the Monitor and B. Herald websites demanding that the reporters there do a little digging to determine his immigration status. He is living in Hidalgo. He did not show up for the annual Posada he puts on. I am wondering if he quietly got US citizenship, which would be a slap in the face of his paisanos mejicanos, or if he is living here on some kind of visa, and if so, how long will that visa last given that he has taken up with narcotraficantes. All that said, Un Rinconcito en el Cielo is one of my favorite songs.
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http://www.ramonayala.org/
The man does play a mean accordion. Hope he gets back to his family before Christmas.
Swinney:
See interesting Wall Street Journal article today re attack on Beltran Leyva in Cuernavaca
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126104630707195259.html
Turns out he is an American citizen, and his daughter is demanding the US government intervene and get him outta there. She also seems to indicate that the US legal system is superior to Mexico’s. Disgust here on my part, because their first loyalty is to Mexico — except when they want to live here in safety, or when they need the US to take care of them or bail them out.
http://www.milenio.com/node/346060
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