Posted on 08/09/2002 9:10:09 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
National Park Service Ranger Killed in Shooting Near U.S.-Mexico Border
The Associated Press
TUCSON, Ariz. Aug. 9 — A National Park Service ranger was killed Friday in a shootout with suspected smugglers near the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities said.
The ranger was responding, along with the U.S. Border Patrol, to a call for assistance from Mexican authorities who were chasing two men in a vehicle that crossed the border into the Organ Pipe National Monument.
Authorities were still investigating what happened, and it wasn't immediately clear why the men were being chased.
Dale Thompson, chief park ranger at the monument, said the shootout took place about 100 yards north of the border in a rugged stretch of desert known for both drug and people smuggling.
The ranger's identity wasn't released.
And there's plenty of them throughout the country, in both parties.
NARCOCORRIDO: A JOURNEY INTO THE MUSIC OF DRUGS, GUNS, AND GUERRILLAS
by Elijah Wald HarpersCollins Rayo November 2001
by Barbara Flaska PopMatters Associate Music Editor
The thuka-thuka-thuka of a low-flying helicopter and the sudden wail of a police siren. My heart skips a beat and the adrenaline is already dripping out my pores. This is going to be exciting! The siren screams up closer, almost catching up, and suddenly there are a few surprising loud blasts from a tuba that begins the exchange. The pedal hits the metal as Jenni Rivera begins singing and floorboards the supercharged "La Chacalosa". Corrido! This is corrido! Trumpets play en doble, clarinets carry signature lines, and lots of cymbals crash for emphasis: "Me buscan por chacalosa, soy hija de un traficante / Conozco bien las movidas, me creí entre la mafia grande / De la mejor mercancía, me enseñó a vender mi padre".
¿Que? ("I am wanted for being chacalosa, I am a trafficker's daughter / I know all the moves, I grew up around the top mafia / My father taught me how to sell the best merchandise".) This is corrido, but the lyrical content has been updated. And so began my introduction to a new form of corrido known as narcocorrido, where Mexican polka meets gangsta lyrics and huge sales result. When it comes to sales and popularity, the Recording Industry Association of America tallied for the year 2000 that more than half of Latin music sales in the U.S. are for Mexican Regional styles. (Please, read that last sentence again and let it sink in.)
Mexican Regional styles sell almost four times as many records as all the "tropical" styles (salsa, merengue, cumbia) put together. Perhaps not all of those records sold are corridos. But drugs and people singing about them are big business, and you've probably already read a review of Elijah Wald's book Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas in the Wall Street Journal. The book is available in both English and Spanish editions.
Don't you hate seeing the President of the greatest nation on earth be the bitch for Vicente Fox? I mean does Fox have something on this guy?
Not exact, but this catches the flavour and attitude; those whose Tex-Mex idiom is better are invited to offer corerections or a better version. The song really launched the superstar career of El Tigres del Norte and was followed by at least three sequel *answer songs* and two motion picture adaptations.
A real quick websearch didn't turn up a MP3 version, but I bet there's one or two to be had somewhere....
por su ordena!
***** ***** *****
They left San Ysidro coming from Tijuana
the rims of the car they brought filled with bad grass
They were Emilio Varela and Camelia the Tejana. [Texas girl]
They came through San Clemente and stopped for immigration
who requested their documents and said to them
Where are you from
They said San Antonio, a place with a woman's heart.
So a woman loves a man, and can give life
but it is necessary to take good care of her
If she should feel hurt
betrayal and the contraband life don't mix.
At Los Angeles they arrived, and went to Hollywood
changed the four rims in a dark alley
there they gave the grass, and there also
they got what was coming to them:
Emilio says to Camellia, today it's goodbye
to the part of this life that touches you, It's to San Francisco, with the owner of my life.
They sound was seven shots,
Camellia, Emilio killed
the police only found a thrown pistol
nothing was ever heard again of the money and Camellia,.
One-word answers are always suspect as oversimplifications, but here's one for you....
They seem to be the majority don't they?
And 9-11 was just an isolated criminal act, because they didn't wear uniforms and fly a flag as they flew into the WTC.
Some people are so stupid it's not worth trying to communicate with them. I put you squarely in that category.
Amen.
In the last 245(i) vote in the House, every congressman in NY, both parties voted for it. The whole northeastern Republican establishment is out of touch with reality on immigration because this area is not as affected in any serious way with the problem yet. If we don't do something about it now as a country, NY, Vermont, New Hampshire and the rest of them will be just like California eventually. Then there will be no areas left for Americans to escape to.
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