Posted on 12/21/2017 3:44:12 PM PST by beaversmom
Juan Luis Lagunas Rosales was born in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, a mecca for cartels and the land of notorious drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. Lagunas grew up never knowing his father. His mother left him with his grandmother as a child.
Lagunas left his hometown at the age of 15 without finishing high school, moving to the nearby municipality of Culiacán and washing cars to make a living, he said in an interview in July. It was in this adopted town that he took on the nickname that would later become known across cyberspace: “El Pirata de Culiacán,” or “The Pirate of Culiacán.”
He started landing invitations to more and more parties, and soon fell into a life of excessive drinking. He would post videos on social media showing him chugging beer and bottles of whiskey, sometimes getting so drunk he would pass out. The videos started going viral. In the years that followed, the bingeing teenager became a perverse YouTube sensation. At the age of 17, he racked up more than a million followers on Facebook and more than 300,000 on Instagram. His social media fame started earning him spots in music videos and at promotional events.
His baby face, matched with his belligerent, clownish behavior, entertained the masses. Yet it was easy to forget that he was still a boy. He drew a beard on his chin to look older. He tattooed his arms — a pirate on one, a tiger on the other. He posted pictures on Instagram with large guns, half-naked women and luxury cars.
The drinking age in Mexico is 18, but “El Pirata de Culiacán” drank as if he had no limits. Like many teenage boys, he lived as if he was invincible, saying whatever he wanted about whomever he wanted.
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A 17-year-old YouTube star insulted a notorious drug lord. The teen was found with at least 15 bullet wounds
Play stupid games...
Is this supposed to be a sad story? Because the kid sounds like a very stupid loser.
Given who the teen was dealing with, I’m surprised they were able to identify the body or even find it.
A point was made.
He was famous for that?
I find it a sad state of affairs that people actually want to watch other people destroying themselves. His life was sad and pathetic. No meaning to it for him.
Pretty messed up, huh?
Bullet points, no less.
Don’t tug on Superman’s cape
Don’t spit into the wind...
...I’m surprised they were able to identify the body....
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I suspect those who killed him wanted him identified in the news as a warning to others.
In Clinton terms, that is a self-inflicted wound.
Would not be unhappy if most teen boys and girls received a similar fate.
This terrorist war has been going on in Mexico for decades but does the major media cover it? I mean the television news because that is the news that is shown in all fifty states. If something is not featured on television news than it really can’t be a big story of national interest to the American people, can it? When the globalist powers want the American people to focus on something they certainly know how to do it, don’t they? Parkland, for instance. It was all Parkland for months. The establishment sure knows how to get people to focus and obsess on a story when they want them to. Apparently the establishment has not wanted Americans to get too frightened or concerned about what goes on in our neighboring country to the south. Many American tourists, bless their hearts, seem oblivious to all the turmoil and horror that is going on in Mexico. Hmmmmm? Could it have something to do with money? Could it have something to do with politics? Could it have something to do with replacing those onery conservative voters who keep on insisting that we do things according to the Constitution, that we should be concerned about the expansion of government power, etc?
Here are some things that have been going on right next door in Mexico:
Dead bodies chopped up like hogs and left by the side of the road to terrorize the population.
Dead bodies of journalists who criticized the cartels hung from highway overpasses.
Over 100 women and young girls disappeared from Cuidad Juarez.
A shooting war between the police and the ARMY!? in the streets of Nuevo Laredo. Aren’t they both supposed to be on the side of law and order?
Tourist busses being shot up.
Police being killed within days of joining the force.
You would think that this long standing horror show would merit TEN FOOT TALL HEADLINES!!! This should have been covered every day like the Iraq war.
But instead we get only spotty coverage once in a while. But when President Trump warns about murderers and rapists coming from Mexico into the United States the shouts of horror echoes for weeks and weeks.
Our media is OWNED by the establishment and therefore it is very difficult to get any truth out of them. We are NOT the land of free speech any more. It is not free, it is OWNED and the people who own it try to control our thinking and our voting by the content of our media. We have a media that is a combination of the old Soviet Union and Madison Avenue. Totalitarianism with a light touch and a smile.
Try to sideline as a fall down drunk.
It’s a skill few have mastered.
Even boatless pirates.
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