Mexican singer Jesus Rey David Alfaro killed
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February 20th, 2008
Famous Mexican singer Jesus Rey David Alfaro Pulido, known as El Gallito, was found dead in Tijuana with three bullet shots on his body.
Alfaro, a regular act at Tijuana’s biggest bars and music halls, was found covered in a blanket in wasteland on the edge of the city with rope marks around his neck, suggesting he was tortured before he was shot in the head, the attorney general’s office said.
According to Reuters’ report the drug hitmen are those who have killed a popular Mexican singer along with his manager and assistant near the U.S. border, authorities said on Wednesday, February 20.
Jesus Rey David Alfaro Pulido is also known as El Gallito and this is the latest murder among musicians who sing “narcocorrido” ballads glorifying drug traffickers.
At least six Mexican folk singers, who play narcocorridos and upbeat, brassy “grupera” music, have been killed since Mexico’s drug war flared in 2006.
Drug hitmen pinned a message on Alfaro’s body saying “You’ll be next,” a taunt aimed at the thousands of soldiers sent by President Felipe Calderon to Tijuana to crush the drug gangs and clean up police forces working with the cartels, continues Reuters.
Tijuana, long a transit point for narcotics heading to the United States, has seen a spike in murders this past year, with drug gangs even killing children. More than 2,500 people were killed in drug violence in Mexico last year and at least 320 people have died so far this year.
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