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Updated: 2001-10-31 01:00

The "song of Osama" is big hit in Mexico (2001/11/01)

"奥萨马之歌"火爆墨西哥
(2001/11/01)

"The song of Osama," and other Mexican folk tunes recounting tales of the September 11 terrorist attacks and their alleged mastermind have become the hottest new recordings hawked by street sellers in northern Mexico.

The tunes are played in the style of "corridos," folk songs popular in northern Mexico that focus largely on fairly current events, and on the lives of the rich, the powerful and the infamous.

One of them is "El corrido de Osama." "Across the skies, the seas and the land they are looking for you, "Bin Laden, the terrorist whom the CIA trained, "This was the biggest mistake of the American government."

"Tragedy in Manhattan" recalls the airborne suicide attacks that tumbled the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. "It was the 11th of September when the events occurred, "The pride of Manhattan destroyed by two planes."

"People in the rural areas in northern Mexico learn more about current events from corridos than from the news," said Jose Luis Cardenas, an anchor at Radio Mexicana de Nuevo Laredo.

"In news broadcasts, the information is given once or twice; with corridos, people buy the disc or the cassette and one does not forget what happened," he said.

US authorities believe the September 11 attacks were done by Osama Bin Laden, a Saudi dissident, Anti-US activist who fought alongside CIA-backed Afghan militias to repel the 1979-1989 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

(Agencies)

如今墨西哥北部小商小贩们叫卖的最火爆的磁带要数"奥萨马之歌"和一些讲述9·11恐怖袭击事件经过及幕后策划者的墨西哥民歌。

这些歌曲均用"corridos"曲调演奏,这是一种流行于墨西哥北部的民歌形式,通常以时事、豪门旺族和有权势阶层的生活,和一些臭名昭著的人为题材。

其中有一首名为 "奥萨马之歌" 的曲子,歌词这样写道:"跨越天空,海洋和大地,他们在搜寻你";"美国政府犯了个天大的错误,中情局一手栽培出恐怖分子本·拉登"。

另一首名为"曼哈顿的悲剧"的歌曲回忆了9月11日那天两架波音客机撞入纽约世贸大楼的场景。歌中唱道:"9·11事件发生了,曼哈顿的骄傲被摧毁了。"

墨西哥新拉雷多电台的一位节目主持人何西·路易斯·卡德纳司说:"墨西哥北部的农民们了解时事的主要渠道是corridos歌谣而不是什么新闻节目。"

他说:"媒体中的新闻不过播放一至二次,而买了corridos的唱片或磁带后,人们通过反复的聆听,会牢牢记住歌词里叙述的事件。"

美国政府认定9·11恐怖袭击事件是奥萨马·本·拉登一手策划的。出生于沙特的拉登是个叛逆者、反美活跃分子,他曾和美国中情局支持的阿富汗游击队并肩作战,在1979-1989年的反苏战争中,把入侵的苏军赶出阿富汗。

(中国日报网站译)

 
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