{"id":92950,"date":"2016-04-09T19:16:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T03:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=92950"},"modified":"2016-04-09T19:16:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T03:16:19","slug":"mexico-music-video-showing-woman-murder-sparks-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=92950","title":{"rendered":"Mexico music video showing woman murder sparks outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YWluGL1_TH0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>How come the murder of the man in this video stirs no outrage?<\/p>\n<p>AFP: Mexico music video showing woman murder sparks outrage<\/p>\n<p>Mexico City (AFP) &#8211; A man finds his lover in bed with another man. He pulls a gun, shoots the rival dead, ties up the woman, drags her to a car, stuffs her in the trunk and smiles as he sets it on fire.<br \/>\n&#8220;Fuiste Mia&#8221; (&#8220;You were mine&#8221;), a slick music video by the Mexican-American singer Gerardo Ortiz, has garnered more than 25 million views on YouTube &#8212; and provoked a furious backlash in a country that suffers from an ingrained culture of sexual violence and where killings of women have surged.<br \/>\nThe 25-year-old Ortiz has a long list of &#8220;narcocorridos&#8221; &#8212; or &#8220;narco ballads&#8221; &#8212; to his credit, a controversial yet hugely popular genre that celebrates the feats of Mexico&#8217;s drug lords and is banned from the airwaves in many places.<br \/>\nBut none of his videos has attracted as much attention as &#8220;Fuiste Mia,&#8221; which appeared just as two high-profile sexual harassment cases were making headlines in Mexico &#8212; and prompted him to cancel several concerts.<br \/>\nStuffing a woman in a skimpy nightgown into a trunk is reminiscent of the tactics of Mexico&#8217;s drug gangs, who often dump bodies, sometimes hacked to pieces and with notes attached to them, inside cars.<br \/>\nSpeaking at a press conference from southern California, where he lives as a US citizen, Ortiz said the &#8220;horrible publicity&#8221; surrounding the video had the merit of raising awareness of femicide, or the violent killing of women.<br \/>\nBut his argument did little to appease critics in Mexico.<br \/>\nVideos like this one &#8220;objectify women, glorify violence, and reaffirm stereotypes about women causing problems for men and therefore deserving punishment,&#8221; said Lucia Lagunes, head of Women&#8217;s Communication and Information, a rights NGO.<br \/>\nThe subject is highly sensitive in a country where nearly half of all women over the age of 15 &#8212; 47 percent &#8212; have suffered some form of sexual violence, according to government statistics.<br \/>\nThe Mexican interior ministry condemned the singer by name in a statement expressing &#8220;profound rejection of this type of content, and in particular, the video of singer Gerardo Ortiz.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe video &#8220;clearly invites violence against women, in addition to minimizing and normalizing this social scourge,&#8221; it said.<br \/>\nOrtiz&#8217;s video also caught the attention of officials in the western state of Jalisco, who issued a summons for the singer for questioning. Two years ago police seized six AK-47 assault rifles and a grenade launcher at the upscale home in Jalisco where the video was filmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How come the murder of the man in this video stirs no outrage? AFP: Mexico music video showing woman murder sparks outrage Mexico City (AFP) &#8211; A man finds his lover in bed with another man. 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