The police have made no arrests, named no suspects and revealed no motives in connection with the murders of the other 14 musicians, although they have said that they all bore the hallmarks of organised crime. 'We will never play there again - out of respect for Valentin.' However, he said there was a rumour that the attack may have had more to do with a song called For My Enemies, in which Elizalde wrote about envious rival musicians. There is no love for us Sinaloans there,' he said. Castro-Elizalde agrees that Reynosa is considered enemy terrain by the Sinaloan gangsters, whose kingpins, such as Joaquin 'Shorty' Guzman, have featured in their songs. The band are all natives of Sinaloa, the mountainous Pacific state which is home to the Sinaloan cartel, the main rival to the Gulf-based mafia. However, officials have not revealed a motive. The suspect, Raul Hernandez, is accused of being a paid assassin for the Gulf cartel, which is one of Mexico's most powerful drug trafficking organisations and has its stronghold in Reynosa, where the murder took place. In April, police arrested one of the alleged gunmen in the shooting of his cousin. Many people in my country don't have enough money to eat.' 'And I'm a really lucky person to be making a good living as a musician. 'I just thank God every day that I'm alive,' he tells me, inspecting the bullet wound on his left arm. 'There was a big shoot-out,/ With 14 bullet-filled bodies, / And the American government, /Took away the marijuana,' he sang in his other hit, Contraband on the Border. One of the most popular drug ballad composers, Elizalde had been nominated for a Grammy shortly before his murder, having gained a hardcore following for songs such as 118 Bullets. He was abducted after a concert and tortured for two days, his genitals being burnt with a blowtorch, before he was strangled with a plastic cord.
Sergio Gomez of K-Paz de la Sierra won a Grammy nomination after releasing Pero Te Vas a Repentir, or 'You Will Have Regrets,' a love song so catchy that half of Mexico was humming it. The carnage has claimed both up-and-coming musicians and best-selling artists. Four members of Los Padrinos de la Sierra were shot in June, four months after masked gunmen ambushed them in the town of Puruaran, killing four and wounding one. In December, three entertainers were killed in a week: one singer was kidnapped, throttled and dumped on a road, a trumpeter was found with a bag on his head and a diva was shot dead in her hospital bed. The latest victim was sprayed with 20 bullets as he sang alongside his band, Brisas del Mar, at a dance near the Acapulco resort in March. In the past two years, 15 mexican musicians have been murdered.In the past two years, assassins have shot, burnt or suffocated at least 15 Mexican musicians.
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