Posted on 01/30/2013 5:49:57 PM PST by Pan_Yan
MONTERREY, Mexico - Police pulled 17 bodies from a well in northern Mexico and 14 of them have been identified as members of a musical band kidnapped by gunmen last week, an official said Tuesday.
Investigators have finished searching the well but are still trying to determine a motive in the killings of the Kombo Kolombia band members and crew, said a Nuevo Leon state official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly on the case.
Kombo Kolombia was playing at a ranch in the town of Hidalgo when 10 gunmen entered the warehouse where the private party was being held Friday and forced 18 musicians and crew members into waiting vehicles.
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Nuevo Leon state, on the border with Texas, has been the scene of a turf battle between members of the Gulf and Zetas drug cartels. The Zetas were hit men for the Gulf cartel until they split in 2010, unleashing their bloody war.
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I should have known there was also a town of Hidalgo in Mexico. I’ve gone thru Hidalgo Tx. on the way to Reynosa too many times, so I assumed that was the place.
We need a well like that for some of our “musicians.” (Notice the quotation marks).
There's also a Hidalgo in New Mexico.
As they say, “Don’t drink the water.”
Evidently, the band did not know how to play “Freebird”.
Suffice to say, you do *not* want to get on “Mexican Idol”.
Marco Rubio gonna give the killers Amnesty.
Tiempo para excavar un nuevo pozo.
Tiempo para excavar un nuevo pozo de agua.
Unfortunately, they played the “Mexican Hat Dance” one too many times.
Drug cartels have been known for having favorite musicians and killing musicians that rubbed them the wrong way.
Yeah - I read about this in "Born to Run" (about ultra-runner Caballo Blanco and the Copper Canyon Indians in Mexico). The author related that the drug cartels hate musicians almost as much as the police. I'm sure none of that would happen here though with amnesty.
Amusingly enough I read that book too. I first heard about the Tarahumara runners 35+ years ago
Either way it is better for Americans to visit Mexico than for Mexico to move here wholesale. The stupid logic here boils down to that if we could transport the entire state of Chihuahua here it would increase the GNP. Thousands of barrios and third world shanty towns in America increase the GNP
It's a great book, isn't it? Vibram's are on my list for this spring (too d@mn cold to try that now).
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