Mexican Military Murdering Musicians?
For years, the Government of Mexico has been trying to crack down on corrido music. Many radio stations have already bowed to the pressure. It is interesting that the murder and intimidation of musicians began after Harvard educated, President “Select“ Caldaron was placed in power. Caldaron started using the military to attack the drug cartels as soon as he took office. The tactic of killing the musicians and blaming the rival cartels plays like classic “School of the Americas” doctrine.
It doesn’t make sense that drug lords would attack songwriters. The singers are not the personal messengers for the cartels, and it seems that singing any corrido can get you killed. Mafiosos and non-mafiosos alike have paid for music by Los Tigres del Norte and Los Tucanes de Tijuana for years. Why are celebrities like Valentin Elizalde now marked for death rather than kidnappings for ransom? What has changed is that Mexican Law Enforcement is under siege. Police chiefs are routinely murdered and even the police headquarters in Cananea, Sonora was assaulted in a daytime raid.
In my opinion, the government is silencing a music that is thought to glorify the mafiosos and leaves law enforcement surrounded by mafioso sympathizers.
