Massacre of the Assassins – Taxco Guerrero 2010
Authentic documentary video, filmed the afternoon of the bloody shoot-out in Taxco between soldiers and a band of hit men in a house on Cerro de Bermeja in Taxco. This gunbattle was widely reported by the mass-media and cited as evidence that Taxco is gropped by a so-called “Narco War”.
While two campesinos are plowing and planting the earth of a field, a group of men prepare a batch of cement for the roof of the house of a neighbor. A sound-car comes by, blaring graphic announcements on the behalf of an extra edition of a local newspaper. “Look at it! Look, look in Taxco, find out! Fifteen dead, Fifteen executed. See all the photographs” This little video is a snapshot of modern rural Mexico putting the sensationistic sale of the “Mexico Narco War” into its cultural perspective.
First of all notice that nobody is freaked out. One of the workers gives out a shout to mimic the sound-car, which slows down but none of them is enterested in buying a paper, the cost of which is only 5 pesos, the cost of a piece of candy.
This video shows that modern rural Mexican people have NOT been transformed into fearful victims of the threats of terror tactics. Whatever is happening, the traditional Mexican society is hardly falling apart.
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Music of Guerrero
Music by Cuerdas de Taxco and Banda Santa Cecilia of Axixintla.
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Category: Stone Mosaic Jewelry by Authentic Mexican Craftswomen
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Expertly Handcrafted Jewelry Beautiful stone mosaic
Lapidary Work. This jewelry set in Alpaca German Silver
with Sterling Silver Overlay and Fine Pewter Silver Alloy.
