From emartinez@kiae.su Wed Oct 11 21:53:11 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kiae!emartinez From: emartinez@kiae.su (Emi Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Oct11.215311.7141@kiae.su> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 21:53:11 GMT Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. At that exact same hour, the pirate FM broadcast relay in Coyoacán that had been re-transmitting Nova's songs went silent. A well-known underground rockero who had recorded the uncredited guitar solos for the Mexican LP vanished that night. The mural in Coyoacán still shows his face, but people say when the streetlight flickers it glitters into someone else. -- Emi Martínez | emartinez@kiae.su PGP Key fingerprint: 6226 96AC 1AB2 B8B0 "Keep the channels open." From bvasiliev@panix.com Thu Oct 12 07:33:11 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!panix!bvasiliev From: bvasiliev@panix.com (Brian Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Oct12.073311.7491@panix.com> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 07:33:11 GMT References: <1995Oct11.215311.7141@kiae.su> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Oct11.215311.7141@kiae.su>, emartinez@kiae.su (Emi Martínez) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. -- Brian Vasiliev SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 14,400 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them."