"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販們叫賣的最火爆的磁帶要數"奧薩馬之歌"和一些講述9·11恐怖襲擊事件經過及幕后策劃者的墨西哥民歌。 這些歌曲均用"corridos"曲調演奏，這是一種流行于墨西哥北部的民歌形式，通常以時事、豪門旺族和有權勢階層的生活，和一些臭名昭著的人為題材。 其中有一首名為 "奧薩馬之歌" 的曲子，歌詞這樣寫道："跨越天空，海洋和大地，他們在搜尋你"；"美國政府犯了個天大的錯誤，中情局一手栽培出恐怖分子本·拉登"。 另一首名為"曼哈頓的悲劇"的歌曲回憶了9月11日那天兩架波音客機撞入紐約世貿大樓的場景。歌中唱道："9·11事件發生了，曼哈頓的驕傲被摧毀了。" 墨西哥新拉雷多電臺的一位節目主持人何西·路易斯·卡德納司說："墨西哥北部的農民們了解時事的主要渠道是corridos歌謠而不是什么新聞節目。" 他說："媒體中的新聞不過播放一至二次，而買了corridos的唱片或磁帶后，人們通過反復的聆聽，會牢牢記住歌詞里敘述的事件。" 美國政府認定9·11恐怖襲擊事件是奧薩馬·本·拉登一手策劃的。出生于沙特的拉登是個叛逆者、反美活躍分子，他曾和美國中情局支持的阿富汗游擊隊并肩作戰，在1979-1989年的反蘇戰爭中，把入侵的蘇軍趕出阿富汗。 （中國日報網站譯） |
Updated: 2001-10-31 01:00
