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Line Out (Free subscription) | 12/17/2007
From the International Herald Tribune : Country music stars in Mexico are being killed at an alarming rate - 13 in the past year and a half, 3 already in December - in a trend that has gone hand in hand with the surge in violence between drug gangs here. On Dec. 1, Zayda Peña, the raven-haired lead singer of Zayda y Los Culpables, was shot in a motel room in Matamoros in the state of Tamaulipas. She...
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PR-Inside.com Entertainment News (Free subscription) | 12/10/2007
Mexican trumpeter JOSE LUIS AQUINO has become the third musician to be murdered in Mexico in less than a week. The 33-year-old was found with his hands and feet bound and a bag over his head in the city of Oaxaca on Thursday (06Dec07). The slaying follows that of Zayda Pena, 28, who was shot in a [...]
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 12/06/2007
When the gunmen first came for the Mexican singer Zayda Peña she was relaxing after a concert in the border town of Matamoros, over the border from Brownsville, Texas.
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English Webster (Free subscription) | 12/04/2007
Zayda Peña’s news came as a shocker to me. Why would a beautiful singer for a cause get killed? Kind of get killed twice when the first attempt wasn't successful? I just opened my eyes in a bed that didn't look familiar and wanted a sip of honest produce hot coffee. I felt I had to drink something of my chest, but I couldn't remember what exactly. It felt as half a day was erased from my memory…
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VivirLatino (Free subscription) | 12/04/2007
Less then 24 hours ago, we reported on the horrific killing of Mexican singer Zayda Peña. This morning's news brings us the killing of another popular Mexican singer, Sergio Gomez, of the K-Paz de la Sierra. The husband and father...
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Bumpshack (Free subscription) | 12/04/2007
Grupero singer Zayda Pena was shot to death in a Mexican emergency room after coming out of surgery for being shot just the day before by gangs. She was killed in her hospital bed. The killings of musicians in Mexico are a recent and tragic trend. The latest casualty appears to be Zayda Peña, [...]
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Right Celebrity (Free subscription) | 12/04/2007
Meet Zayda Pena (aka Zaida Pena) of Zayda Y Los Culpables, a Mexican singer who was gunned down by drug lords. Her photos and music videos are here. Zayda Pena Not much is known about the biography of Zayda in English so please add to it. She was 28 years old. Her picture [...]
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 12/04/2007
Apart from the police and narco-gangsters, few groups of people have suffered more in Mexico's brutal drug wars than the singers whose music often chronicles the carnage. The latest casualty appears to be Zayda Peña, 28, a singer who was shot dead Saturday in a hospital emergency room in the city of Matamoros, across the Rio Grande from Brownsville.
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VivirLatino (Free subscription) | 12/03/2007
Incredible but true. Zayda Peña, 28, a grupera singer known for her anti-narco lyrics was shot on Saturday while in a hotel room in Matamoros, Mexico, where she was staying with a friend. The friend, as well as the hotel...
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This murder had nothing to do with drug loards, Zayada's music etc... Zayda was with her girlfriend; and the husband of her girlfriend stormed the motel...
anonymous - 12/04/2007