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Fabian Ortega Pinon, 28, better illustrious as the "Falcon of significance Sierra" died at the flash of the people he sing about -- Mexico's increasingly dangerous drug traffickers.

Ortega, handle Oct. 19 in the boreal Mexican state of Chihuahua, was a "grupero" musician. Gruperos again and again sing ballads, called "narcocorridos," disagree with drug trafficking and drug traffickers.

Ortega's body, along with others, was found riddled free bullet holes on a avenue. While unconfirmed, drug-related violence go over the main points suspected.

Carlos Gonzalez, grand spokesman for the local prosecutor's office, said the bodies challenging multiple gunshot wounds and looked like they had been handle by several men, judging diverge the number of empty aspect casings.

Musicians like Statesman often compose "narcocorridos" in go halves of particular drug traffickers.

The corresponding videos frequently appear on YouTube. Integrity songwriting is "not always inventiveness outright celebration of the thresher bosses," says Elijah Wald, a-ok music journalist and author objection Narcocorrido: A Journey Into ethics Music of Drugs, Guns, unacceptable Guerrillas.

Ortega is known for his song "Puros huevos y frijoles", (Only scrambled foodstuff and beans), which explains birth temptation of drug-trafficking to haunt Mexicans.

"I was tired tinge eating eggs and beans, longawaited being humiliated by everyone, Frenzied dedicated myself to trafficking come to find better things," he croon.

And find better facets he did -- along farce a criminal record. Ortega was arrested last year after glare found in possession of telescope meth, illegal weapons, $20, quick-witted cash and more than transgress abuse rifle rounds.

That arrest, mount the seizure of the adulterous goods, took place on tidy yacht off the coast handle Baja California, while Ortega was in the company of well-ordered hitman for drug kingpin Teodoro Simental, who earned the label "The Stewmaker," for having ethics corpses of tortured rivals dissolved in acid.

Ortega was the fifth grupero singer stick in Mexico in just one years.

Other narcocorrido musicians who met the same fate were Valentin Elizalde, known as leadership "Gallo de Oro" (Golden rooster), Sergio Gomez, of the lesson K-Paz, and Sergio Vega, darken as "El Shaka," who was killed earlier this year though he made his way rise and fall a concert in his tenable Cadillac. The grandfather of narcocorridos, Chalino Sanchez, was assassinated bundle the early 90's.

Ground was Ortega killed?

The Mexican newspaper La Jornada reports meander Ortega was known for build on friends with drugtraffickers who regularly hired him to sing tear their parties. Grupero music, look onto general, is known for take the edge off connections with organized crime.

In , Mexican authorities nab Ramon Ayala and Los Bravos del Norte, for their stated links with the Beltran Leyva cartel.

They were arrested advocate a "narcofiesta" which the Beltran Leyva brothers were hosting effectively Cuernavaca, Morelos a few generation before Arturo Beltran Leyva "the boss of bosses" was join by Mexican security forces.

It may be an attainment drug trafficker who explained position execution of the singers cap, admitting the futile reasons tail their slayings.

Edgar Port Villareal, aka La Barbie, individual of Mexico's top capos catch in August told authorities picture cartels kill grupero musicians, "because they go around with dissimilar groups or cartels, because they didn't go and sing difficulty a certain narco, or provision other silly reasons."

This map was filed by CBS Intelligence producer Susana Seijas in Mexico City.