Potrero Chico news...
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Not hating... Just pointing out that he always seems to try to put a spin on the violence in Mexico. |
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Wow. |
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@ Stephen and Camhead. The Bar (Quinta La Carreta) where the abductions occurred is about 200m from the entrance of La Posada, the main place where people stay at EPC. Homero's is directly across the street from this bar. I was in EPC to Jan 10 and was staying in the Casita closest to this place (80m away - checked with Google Earth) . The party's held at this place scared the crap out of me. |
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Direct link to the borderland beats writeup... |
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Chris Small wrote:@ Stephen and Camhead. The Bar (Quinta La Carreta) where the abductions occurred is about 200m from the entrance of La Posada, the main place where people stay at EPC. Homero's is directly across the street from this bar. I was in EPC to Jan 10 and was staying in the Casita closest to this place (80m away - checked with Google Earth) . The party's held at this place scared the crap out of me.Ok, yeah, I remember that bar. I'm a bit confused, though. Both the article linked most recently in this thread, and an article linked in another thread on mountainproject say that the band was abducted from the city of Sabinas Hidalgo, which is NOT the same Hidalgo near Potrero, it is like 50 miles away or so. http://americanlivewire.com/cartel-behind-kidnapping-murders-of-kombo-kolombia/ |
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I'm really interested in some clarity on this and other people's insights as well. |
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From Mexican news El Indipendiente: |
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It was 87 degrees yesterday and everyone was climbing in the shade. |
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Hot Tip! |
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Why would anyone kill a band? I guess they were dealing drugs ... |
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So what's the story on this in the Potrero, Ed? You haven't said anything about that and you live right there. What's the truth? |
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George Bell wrote:Why would anyone kill a band? I guess they were dealing drugs ... What a sad state of affairs.Answer: I just read this book called El Narco by a guy named Grillo, apparently the music scene in Mexico has all kinds of entwinement with the cartels, they have this whole narco-ballad type of music where they glorify their gang over the adversary. The narco guys even pay bands to make music about them. And they murder guys who make them unhappy. A little bit like gangster rap, but they have to pick a side and often get killed over it...NarcoCorrido - Wiki It's a good book, check it out if you have the time. Amazon - El Narco |
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Ed Wright wrote:It was 87 degrees yesterday and everyone was climbing in the shade.I don't think it's the weather people are worried about... |
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Stich wrote: Ballad of HeisenbergCurses! Beat me to it!!!! Bonus points for the English translation. Maybe everyone should stay away from Yosemite this year, it's so close to all the mayhem happening in the Stockton/Merced area. cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162… theprodigy.ucmerced.edu/art… |
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Ed Wright wrote:It was 87 degrees yesterday and everyone was climbing in the shade.So you admit that things are heating up? |
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richard magill wrote: Answer: I just read this book called El Narco by a guy named Grillo, apparently the music scene in Mexico has all kinds of entwinement with the cartels, they have this whole narco-ballad type of music where they glorify their gang over the adversary. The narco guys even pay bands to make music about them. And they murder guys who make them unhappy. A little bit like gangster rap, but they have to pick a side and often get killed over it...NarcoCorrido - Wiki It's a good book, check it out if you have the time. Amazon - El NarcoYeah, it's a tradition that goes back to Prohibition, and beyond. A colleague of mine wrote his dissertation on narcocorridos. However, a few articles that I read specifically stated that this group decidedly stayed away from the narco ballad genre. Tying them to this is like tying Jam Master J to Gangsta Rap. |
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I'm not sure why all the rumors around this thing happening at Homeros but from what I'm reading it happened in Sabinas Hidalgo and the bodies where found in Minas. (which honestly doesn't make a lot of sense seeing that Hidalgo is much closer to Minas as Sabinas Hidalgo) I also understand that this band had ties to the drug trade in some way. I'm planning on going there in 4 weeks and the inital reports freaked me out. Now I'm thinking it's the same ol' Mexico(well same ol' Mexico post 2008), travel in the morning, use a low profile vehicle, don't leave Potrero or go into town at night and you'll more likely be fine. |
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Chris Small wrote:@ Stephen and Camhead. The Bar (Quinta La Carreta) where the abductions occurred is about 200m from the entrance of La Posada, the main place where people stay at EPC. Homero's is directly across the street from this bar. I was in EPC to Jan 10 and was staying in the Casita closest to this place (80m away - checked with Google Earth) . The party's held at this place scared the crap out of me.Well what is this all about if the location is wrong? |
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richard magill wrote: Well what is this all about if the location is wrong?This is what I'm trying to figure out. I really want to find out if the band was, in fact, gigging and then kidnapped within a stones throw of Potrero (as Ed and a few other have said), or if it was 60 miles away in Sabinas Hidalgo. It is possible that the news sources mistook it, and erroneously said it happened in Sabinas, I guess. It would not make much sense to take bodies from Sabinas to Mina. |