States: cd against illegal immigration
In the U.S. get their hands dirty is old stuff. Illegal migration from the borders of the South? Prisoners who do not speak and do not help the CIA? There are far more trendy methods: compilation to the media, Springsteen to detainees.
There was once the frontier. What led to the United States. There were Mexican immigrants who were trying to go from south to north. There were illegal immigrants, instead of the route by boat (as we usually see in the Mediterranean), crossed the desert with makeshift equipment or with the help of drug traffickers. There was (over) after death. In 2005 came to 492 the number of coffins that have traced back to cross the border.
The solution to the U.S. government? Cd. A compilation, the "Migra Corridor", with five tracks designed to deter "migras" Mexicans from making the deadly journey to freedom. 5 popular Mexican narrative ballads that have their roots in medieval Spain: the kind of songs that Mexicans and Mexican-American community are very tied.
the modest sum of 3.8 billion dollars (just under € 3 billion), the Border Security Initiative that has funded the revision of the songs. Accomplices radio and television Mexicans who have submitted songs passing them off as public service announcements. The brain of all is enkel, a firm specializing in advertising to target the Latin market, which has proceeded to write, record and distribute the album in ways that are not quite transparent. Pablo Iziquierdo, enkel vice president, explained to The Guardian "When we contacted the Mexican media have presented the (Cd) as a humanitarian campaign. We did not say who was behind because consumer research had indicated that it was not well received. " So we preferred to think that there was behind the Mexican government: "The last thing we wanted was put on a 'paid by the United States'. The important thing is that if we pushed people to think twice, we had success, "said Jimmy Learned, president enkel.
The new U.S. , always carrying fashions and trends, is in ushering in a message size - the music - which has always been through ideas, trivia, truth or simply catchy stories. But never for propaganda initiatives of the State (although an exception can be made if we think the 2008 presidential elections, with special songs in support of candidates Obama and McCain ).
Subtle. Strategic. Seemingly harmless. Yet effective. The CD to be released between May and June 2009 is the second. Such a project was initiated in 2006. The CDs were sent to radio stations in Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic, in agreement with Arizona Family and the Associated Press. Particularly in Mexico, the CD had been directed to the six states, according to the research of enkel, recorded the highest number of migrants leaving for the frontier: Zacatecas, Michoacan, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Jalisco and Chiapas.
Initially, there were only segments of songs, then listeners have begun to ask the radio to listen to the whole versions. Among the officials of the "Border Patrol" is spoken of decline in deaths and rescues along the southern border: 492 deaths in 2005 and 390 in 2008, 2,550 people in very poor conditions stored on the border in 2005 and 1,263 in 2008.
The lyrics are very direct. Here are some examples:
"Abelardo opened his eyes, and in the middle of the cold night, he found his cousin dead next to him" (El Mas Grande enemiga)
"Before you cross the border, remember that you can be the himself a man tirandoti back and prejudice. Why is it better to keep the life that lead to death. " (Veinte Años)
"He put me in a trailer, there shared my pain with 40 illegal immigrants. I had never been told he would be a trip to hell "(El Respeto)
not forget Guantanamo since 2003 music is used as a form of psychological torture on detainees. Last December Reprive - Association for Human Rights, which provides legal support to detainees at Guantanamo - had launched an initiative, Zero dB, to put an end to psychological torture using music as a weapon. The initiative had big names in its support, from Bruce Springsteen to Rage Against the Machine and Massive Attack. Some
name of the most popular songs of the torture? "White America" \u200b\u200band "Slim Shady" by Eminem, "Enter Sandman" by Metallica, "Born in the USA" by Bruce Springsteen, "Hell's Bells" by AC / DC, Aerosmith and more, Limp Bizkit and Prince. And if you listen to the long "We are the champions" a drama that does not seem too well, think of what must listen even once, in whole, a song by Britney Spears (who is also blacklisted by Christina Aguilera and the Bee Gees) ... Good thing the U.S. has not reached Arisa!
There was once the frontier. What led to the United States. There were Mexican immigrants who were trying to go from south to north. There were illegal immigrants, instead of the route by boat (as we usually see in the Mediterranean), crossed the desert with makeshift equipment or with the help of drug traffickers. There was (over) after death. In 2005 came to 492 the number of coffins that have traced back to cross the border.
The solution to the U.S. government? Cd. A compilation, the "Migra Corridor", with five tracks designed to deter "migras" Mexicans from making the deadly journey to freedom. 5 popular Mexican narrative ballads that have their roots in medieval Spain: the kind of songs that Mexicans and Mexican-American community are very tied.
the modest sum of 3.8 billion dollars (just under € 3 billion), the Border Security Initiative that has funded the revision of the songs. Accomplices radio and television Mexicans who have submitted songs passing them off as public service announcements. The brain of all is enkel, a firm specializing in advertising to target the Latin market, which has proceeded to write, record and distribute the album in ways that are not quite transparent. Pablo Iziquierdo, enkel vice president, explained to The Guardian "When we contacted the Mexican media have presented the (Cd) as a humanitarian campaign. We did not say who was behind because consumer research had indicated that it was not well received. " So we preferred to think that there was behind the Mexican government: "The last thing we wanted was put on a 'paid by the United States'. The important thing is that if we pushed people to think twice, we had success, "said Jimmy Learned, president enkel.
The new U.S. , always carrying fashions and trends, is in ushering in a message size - the music - which has always been through ideas, trivia, truth or simply catchy stories. But never for propaganda initiatives of the State (although an exception can be made if we think the 2008 presidential elections, with special songs in support of candidates Obama and McCain ).
Subtle. Strategic. Seemingly harmless. Yet effective. The CD to be released between May and June 2009 is the second. Such a project was initiated in 2006. The CDs were sent to radio stations in Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic, in agreement with Arizona Family and the Associated Press. Particularly in Mexico, the CD had been directed to the six states, according to the research of enkel, recorded the highest number of migrants leaving for the frontier: Zacatecas, Michoacan, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Jalisco and Chiapas.
Initially, there were only segments of songs, then listeners have begun to ask the radio to listen to the whole versions. Among the officials of the "Border Patrol" is spoken of decline in deaths and rescues along the southern border: 492 deaths in 2005 and 390 in 2008, 2,550 people in very poor conditions stored on the border in 2005 and 1,263 in 2008.
The lyrics are very direct. Here are some examples:
"Abelardo opened his eyes, and in the middle of the cold night, he found his cousin dead next to him" (El Mas Grande enemiga)
"Before you cross the border, remember that you can be the himself a man tirandoti back and prejudice. Why is it better to keep the life that lead to death. " (Veinte Años)
"He put me in a trailer, there shared my pain with 40 illegal immigrants. I had never been told he would be a trip to hell "(El Respeto)
not forget Guantanamo since 2003 music is used as a form of psychological torture on detainees. Last December Reprive - Association for Human Rights, which provides legal support to detainees at Guantanamo - had launched an initiative, Zero dB, to put an end to psychological torture using music as a weapon. The initiative had big names in its support, from Bruce Springsteen to Rage Against the Machine and Massive Attack. Some
name of the most popular songs of the torture? "White America" \u200b\u200band "Slim Shady" by Eminem, "Enter Sandman" by Metallica, "Born in the USA" by Bruce Springsteen, "Hell's Bells" by AC / DC, Aerosmith and more, Limp Bizkit and Prince. And if you listen to the long "We are the champions" a drama that does not seem too well, think of what must listen even once, in whole, a song by Britney Spears (who is also blacklisted by Christina Aguilera and the Bee Gees) ... Good thing the U.S. has not reached Arisa!
prohibited by the UN and the European Court of Human Rights , the use of loud music in the interrogation wildly continues to be used. Impossible not to be reminded
some scenes of "Apocalypse Now" ... More or less 20 years ago in Panama and not in a movie, were already used the songs of Elvis Presley and Guns N 'Roses at full volume to push the then leader Manuel Norriega to resign. There are signs. is demonstrated by several Guantanamo detainees as Binyam Mohamed, after 18 months of torture in a secret prison in Morocco, told Reprieve: "Many lost their heads. I could hear people beating their heads against walls and doors, screaming does not do it anymore. "
And if you consider the methods Maroni U.S.? realize it by Pappalardo at full volume in the Identification and Expulsion Centres (or directly into radio) he sings: "We ... We do not siaaaamo torniaaaamo ...
Sources: Arizona Family, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Reprive
