Cocaine Capitol: SINALOA, MEXICO and it's chicano "Young Jeezy" (Chalino Sanchez)
Sinaloa Mexico , name rings a bell? well if not, then your probally unaware of the presence of Mexican Drug Cartels and thier nack for hyper-violence and nearly endless quantities of cashflow.
Known as the Cocaine Capital of Mexico, it is home to several cartels, one of which being the Malverde Mafia which could be considered a "Trappers Paradise" and happens to be the home of a Gangsta Disciple Kingpin currently on the US MARSHALLS MOST WANTED LIST.
Sinaloa Mexico recently made news, when Mexican Authorities tracked the owner of a DC-9 airliner painted with the same colors as a HOMELAND SECURITY AIRCRAFT which was recently confiscated for carrying 5.5 tons of Cocaine, so not only is Sinaloa home to underworld tyrants but is a Government homestead as well, and has provided a musical soundtrack much like Gangsta Rap in which an artist like the late great Chalino Sanchez whom actually returned gunfire at one of his shows, articulates the stories of the Sinaloa underworld. Many of his songs are norteño corridos.
Just as rap was forcing the Anglo pop world to confront the raw sounds and stark realities of the urban streets, thecorrido was stripping off its own pop trappings to become the rap of modern Mexico and the barrios on el otro lado.
His music included stories about drug trafficking, murders and crooked police officials, as well as the struggles of working-class Mexicans.
Although despised by critics for having a subpar singing voice, many gravitated to Sanchez because of his emotion and earnest truth found in his tunes.
His breakthrough, in terms of wider publicity, came on January 20, 1992.
That night, he was singing in a club in Coachella, California, just outside Palm Springs, when an unemployed mechanic came up to the stage to make a request, then pulled out a pistol and shot Chalino in the side.
Living up to his reputation, Chalino pulled out his own gun and returned fire. By the time it was all over, the would-be assassin had been shot in the mouth with his own gun, Nacho Hernandez had been shot in the thigh, and at least five other people were wounded, including a young guy who bled to death as his friends drove him to the hospital.
In Sinaloa, it is commonly said that the death toll was higher, but that most of the killed and wounded, being undocumented aliens with criminal connections, were spirited out of the club and over the border before the police arrived.
Born and raised in Sinaloa, Chalino moved to Los Angeles, California in 1977. In .
He recorded corridos on commission for drug smugglers and sang in local clubs.
On May 15, 1992, he performed in Culiacan, Sinaloa; the next morning his body was found outside of town with two bullets in his head. Although rumors circulated about reasons for his murder, there are no leads or suspects.
After his death, his reputation as a folk hero grew and music rose in popularity, with many complilation albums being released based on the dynamics of the Sinaloa drug market.
If you say the words "Sinaloa," and more particularly "Culiacán" to most Mexicans, the first things they think of are drugs and violence. The state's primacy in the drug world reaches back over a hundred years: Mazatlán is Mexico's largest pacific port and boasts a large Chinese population, and there are accounts of opium dens in both Mazatlán and Culiacán around the turn of last century.
It is common knowledge in Sinaloa that the opium trade began in World War II, when the Roosevelt administration encouraged production for processing into morphine. [Luis] Astorga, the most thorough researcher in this field, says that this is a myth, but it continues to be reprinted with some regularity, and is often quoted as an example of Yankee hypocrisy: First they asked us to grow the stuff, and now they accuse us of causing their problems.
Marijuana, the other big local crop, has been part of Mexican culture since shortly after the arrival of the Spaniards in the sixteenth century. Compared to opium, though, it was bulky and relatively unremunerative as an export product, and it only became big business in the 1960s, in response to the heightened demand on el otro lado ("the other side," a common way of referring to the United States)
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