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...Mexican public was particularly shocked by the slaying of singer Sergio Gomez, who founded his band K Paz de la Sierra while he was an immigrant in Chicago. He had scored a recent hit with Pero Te Vas a Repentir, or "But You Will Have Regrets," a love song so catchy that half the country was humming it. Gomez was abducted after a concert in his native Michoacan state, beaten and burned and then strangled with a plastic cord...
Thousands mourned him at sprawling wakes in Michoacan, Mexico City and Chicago, where he was finally laid to rest. "Being a fan of Gomez, this news really makes me sad," Mexico City Police Chief Joel Ortega said during the wake here. "These things shouldn't happen in our country. Whatever the causes were, it is very sad. He was an extraordinary vocalist...
...real=life bloodshed has not damaged the posthumous popularity of the entertainers. Sales of Elizalde and Gomez records have rocketed since their deaths. This month, they were both nominated for 2008 Latin Grammys, which will be awarded in February...
...There are some dark forces at play here," defense counsel Fabbrith Gomez told TIME, adding that his client is now being detained illegally - an opinion shared by appellate judge Roberto Rodriguez. The U.S. Embassy has weighed in with a letter asking the authorities to "implement a decision as quickly as possible" and assure for Volz's well-being and security while under state custody...
...University of California at Berkeley in 1999. He primarily studies Latin America, focusing on informal institutions and organizations, political parties and party change, and political regimes in the context of democratization. But the scope of Levitsky’s often goes beyond his regional interests, according to Eduardo J. Gomez, who served as a teaching fellow for Gov 1295 last semester. “His work on informal institutions and political regimes has really opened up a lot of ideas and interest in how informal politics works and how regime type matters when it comes to democratization...