Yeah good points all around. I lived in Mexico City for about 5 years in the early 90s and there was a small, tiny interest in garagish oriented stuff- I saw the Cramps, Monomen, Telltale Hearts (Rich Coffee), Cynics...it was mostly an upper-middle class and above scene. There was an outdoor RnR flea market where people sold bootleg tapes of new releases, El Chopo, and it was fairly dominated by metal in all incarnations and then HC punk, classic rock, etc. I was walking around one day and heard Halo of Flies - whatthefuck. The guy selling them didn't even have a proper stall although he eventually opened a small store. Great times...
And another thing....race has a lot to do with all of this. Mexico and most of Central & South America is either Euro, indian or a mix. Not much African, some but not a lot. The Spanish tended to turn the locals into slave and import slaves from Africa only when the locals were too ornery or died off.
Yeah, with Mexico, Peru and some other places, the indigenous peoples were already settled so they weren't going to run off and with Mexico they just took over the Aztec empire. The "tropical" music in Mexico can be fun but it pales in comparison, esp. rhythmic complexity, to the real carribean deal.
comparing the government and the mexican mafia is a pretty spot on approximation considering the latter's involvement in the former.
I wonder how many Americans know that the brother of a former president of Mexico is in jail for being involved in a murder conspiracy and that they found he had Swiss bank accounts with 100s of millions of dollars. One of my favorite pasttimes was to get baked and read the best weekly newsmagazine's stories about corruption and drug lords. There was one story about how some Mexican Feds were waiting for a drug smuggling plane to land, fired on it and received return fire from the members of an army squad that were on board, and there were also drugs. Both sides tried to claim they were setting up a sting oeration....
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