Is this Sergio Gomez? I can't say I have ever heard him, but sad a life was taken.
Posted on 12/26/2007 9:49:42 AM PST by 3AngelaD
MORELIA, Mexico -- Sergio Gómez roared into town in a big SUV, entourage in tow, pressed suits, fancy cowboy boots. Everything about him said superstar. He had an international following and a star on the walk of fame in Las Vegas. More than 20,000 fans swarmed the parking lot of this colonial city's soccer stadium to dance and hear him sing romantic "Duranguense grupero" pop songs backed by a driving drumbeat.
After the show, in the small hours of Dec. 2, Sergio Gomez was kidnapped. Police found his body the next day. He'd been strangled and beaten. His face -- a face that graced album covers and made teenage girls blush -- was disfigured by burn marks. Gomez, 34, was the latest of a dozen pop musicians to have been killed in the past year in Mexico. Nearly every one of the slayings bore the hallmarks of the drug cartel hitmen blamed for 4,000 deaths in the country in the past two years.
But the savage murder of Gomez... who commanded $100,000 a show, twice the rate of other top bands -- was different...Among music industry insiders, Gomez's death and the previous killings are also forcing a quiet assessment of the influence drug trafficking kingpins wield over the business. It is common knowledge in Mexico's music industry...that drug cartels finance the careers of some budding musicians, then launder money through unregulated concert ticket sales...
There has been no suggestion that Sergio Gomez was backed by drug money. But the obvious cartel-hitmen trademarks in his killing have been the catalyst for the music industry to question the risks of mixing socially and professionally with drug traffickers.
"The narcos are completely involved in the business," Lucio Tzin Tzun, a concert promoter. "They control everything. It's like a mafia."...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
And Washington fiddles while America burns....
Don't follow popular music, and hip-hop in particular, I gather.
Is this Sergio Gomez? I can't say I have ever heard him, but sad a life was taken.
So what is the deal there? “Sign with us or die?”
They obviously have read "The Godfather", but with a twist...the narcos cut out the middleman.
Russian hockey players faced the same extortion rackets.
Legalizing drugs is the answer. The fewer substances that are illegal, the easier law enforcement is. Then crush violent behavior.
Just legalize extortion. Then there is no problem.
To each his own I guess. I don't feel for this clown at all. His lyrics focused on drug trafficking and violence and duping the Border Patrol and the supremacy of al things Mexican. Now if the same thing could only happen to the brave ones who did this poser in.
Nope. No hip-hop for me. I do mostly classical and Latin pop. Not the kind of music this guy played, because it is a little heavy on the tuba. But I have heard los Tucanes and Los Tigres del Norte, both of which give regular concerts in the DC area, and it is mostly the glorification of narcotraficantes with some romance gone bad thrown in.
More Americans killed by illegal aliens than Iraq war, study says
When you start digging into the numbers the only ones that can be sourced with the feds are the number of American murdered in 2005: 16692
I have seen federal numbers for illegals held in jail ranging from 19.3% to 27% of the federal prison population.
Here's a sampling of USA cities wanted for murder. What you'll see is that in big USA cities like LA or NYC most of the murderers are Hispanic. Unknown are the % of illegals. In smaller cities the FBI will post the nationalities of the murderers. About 25% of the most wanted are illegals wanted for murder. This number agrees with the percentage of illegals incarcerated in federal prisons. +-25%Pictures of top 10 most wanted in LA. Up until recent stories about crime in LA posted by the LA Times--the pictures included the nationality of the murderers. They were all foreign nationals and mostly Mexican.
Wanted for Murder in New York City.
Chicago wanted for Murder
Philadelphia wanted for murder
San Francisco wanted for Murder
New Orleans wanted for Murder
Pictures of suspects wanted for murder in Washington DC
FBI USA 10 most wanted. (two of 10 are Mexican nationals)
There are currently no exact numbers on the number of Americans killed by illegals. Part of the reason is that the government deliberately obscures the number. I talked on the phone with the head of statistics for the US Bureau of Prisons. He said his office wasn't allowed to publish the number of illegal alien murderers. Rather they were forced to put legal and non legal residents in the same category. I talked to ICE. They put out detailed numbers on illegal child molestors. However, they put out nothing on illegal murderers.
Part of the reason for the silence on the matter is that there is evidence to suggest that most Americans being killed by illegals are black--as is the suggestion in this LA Times Article.
To look at other USA cities go here http://stlouis.fbi.gov/ and replace stlouis with the city you want.
Never heard of Biggie and Tupac, I gather.
Yeah, that’s him. “Face that made young girls blush”-not sure about that. But still, from all I’ve heard of him, a decent guy. A loving son, father and husband. Not the sort of edgy type this usually happens too. I agree, a sad waste.
it is also true that most people killed in urban centers have criminal records themselves. One of those little facts that would change the publics perception on murder rates..ie. generally speaking criminals are killing each other...and the public would probably care less if this were widely known.
Minute Men of America
Stand Up
I always thought our group stood for stopping illegal immigration. I also thought that we, The Minute Me, wanted a permanent security fence along our southern border. It is now clear to me that our leaders are either asleep or have given up on our cause to save America from becoming a third world nation.
"When I am president, I will build a fence."
Did you know .....Fred Thompson in a speech in Iowa on the 21st. of Dec. declared "When I am president, I will build a fence." He went further on to say...Amnesty and illegal immigration, he said, are not healthy for the U.S. or Mexico. "We need to be a nation of high fences and wide gates."
Is this not what we want?
Where are our leaders?
Why aren't there Minute Men TV spots endorsing Fred Thompson?
If we fail we may very well have a Democrat or a liberal Republican elected, who will then push an amnesty bill through congress.
Call your Minute Men Headquarters today and give them your opinion.
*Wonder how long until it starts happening here*
It has been right along only those murdered or kidnaped are business people and others.
The drug cartels and the corrupt federal police in Tijuana are no diffferent than the mafia.
This has been going on in the South Bay area of San Diego and across the border 20 miles south in Tijuana including behedings. To us here in San Diego, this is old news.
Another reason I am voting for Duncan Hunter, The only candidate who gets it and has been in front on these issues for over two decades.
I guess he lost the payout dispute over how many real fans versus phantom fans were in attendance
What a country. The American mass media's resolute lack of interest in what actually goes on in Mexico is stupefying.
For this particular guy, probably. I've heard a little of this, and for the others, it goes deeper than that. The ones bankrolled by the narcos are like puppets. Kind of like a pimp controlling his girls who work for him. This musician was apparently not groomed with them, and he was getting really big. Money they weren't getting, so it seems like it was join us, or die.
I've heard some still do. Professional ice skaters, coaches and other athletes, as well.
That is exactly the impression I was left with. I have heard some coverage of this on Univision news and although they don’t come right out and say it, it’s pretty clear that is what is going on in Mexico, not just with this guy, but with a lot of those norteno groups.
No, you will have to despise him for another reason. He wasn’t a narcocorrido guy, he didn’t sing songs of praise to the drug dealers, his band’s music was all broken hearts and romance, and perhaps his lack of paying homage — or blackmail — to the criminals was part of the problem.
Exactly right! Chasing "illegal" drugs is senseless and only serves to drive the market price higher thereby making the cartels richer with less product.
“Legalizing drugs is the answer”
No. Sorry, but the answer is bringing law and order to Mexico. If they are all coming here anyway, let’s go there first and clean house. Let’s finish what we started in 1845 or whenever — On to the Halls of Montezuma!
After all, can it be much harder to bring honest government to Mexico than to New Jersey or Chicago? Oh, wait, maybe there’s a problem with my plan...
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