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Morning Cup of Murder

The Ballad of A Drug Cartel Singer - November 13 2022

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

November 13th: Diego Rivas Killed (2011) One wrong move can land you on a dangerous list. On November 13th 2011 a talented musician was shot to death and added to a growing list of murder simply because of the music genre he chose to sing. Lyrics that, apparently, earned him quite a few enemies in addition to fans.  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-15715262, https://www.ibtimes.com/mexico-folk-singer-diego-rivas-murdered-songs-told-stories-drug-gangs-369582, http://first.ijs.si/UrlTreeDataset/bbc.co.uk/Documents-02001-02100/Document66.html, http://www.laht.com/article.asp?CategoryId=14091&ArticleId=444026, http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2011/11/mexican-norteno-singer-shot-dead-by.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

0:02.6

When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

0:06.0

We have a weird homicide.

0:08.8

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

0:12.1

One of a murder.

0:15.5

One wrong move can land you on a dangerous list.

0:19.5

On November 13, 2011, a talented musician was shot to death

0:23.9

and added to a growing list of murders simply because of the music genre he chose to sing.

0:31.2

Lyrics that apparently earned him quite a few enemies in addition to fans. So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled,

0:39.5

sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

0:46.4

Diego Rivas, born in Culia Khan, Mexico, grew up singing in school contests and impressing

0:52.3

all that heard his young voice.

0:54.8

His talent led him to joining the band Ariba Mi Sinaloa, from which he split in 2006, and since then

1:01.9

had been appearing with the band Los Guaroos.

1:05.4

Diego sang in a genre called Narca Noritos, a form of polka-inspired Notenio music in which the acts and stories of

1:13.9

drug traffickers are glorified and celebrated and sang popular well-known songs like

1:19.8

Brido Sohn-Sagre, I Toast the Blood, and El Comander, the commander.

1:25.7

Unfortunately, while Diego sang odes to men like Joaquin Shorty Guzman, the head of the

1:31.1

Sino-Loa cartel, and the FBI and Interpol's most wanted person, he, like other Nakkarna Rito

1:37.7

singers, became a target for rival drug gangs, the ones he wasn't celebrating.

1:44.2

On November 13, 2011, Diego Rivas was gunned down, along with two other people in Kulia Khan,

1:51.7

when a man drove up alongside him and opened fire at a close range.

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