Mexican Pop Star Kalimba's Rape Allegations Grip Mexico

GlobalPost:

MEXICO CITY, Mexico -- Grisly details of the case fill prime-time Mexican television; risque jokes on it are splashed across front pages; gossip about it flows from coffee shops to street corners.

And this court case has nothing to do with a drug war that has claimed 34,00 lives and been declared a national security problem.

Instead it focuses on what happened -- or didn't happen -- in the hotel room of one pop singer.

Kalimba Marichal, a 28-year-old Latin crooner, is accused of hitting and raping a 17-year-old girl after a concert in the Caribbean city of Chetumal.

Kalimba, as he is commonly known, denies the charges.

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Comments

[ForemostPanda]

03:58 AM on 01/24/2011

to think, this the country that the reconquistsa want to give the southern part of America to. what a concept.

[realitytrumpsbull]

11:26 AM on 01/23/2011

Wife/girlfriend beating. Not just a Mexico problem. Slapping your woman around doesn't make you more of a man. But, if you look at the picture, he kind of has the 'street pimp' look. 87 earrings, and probably a coke habit. Pop culture! I say more women need to learn karate, so if their 'latin lover' decides to back-hand, they can put some of their own 'pop' into the music.

[FDMNews]

10:17 AM on 01/23/2011

We just got to get more information flowing.

I know these stories are funny, pointing to an interesting sociological need to avoid the difficult in favor of pointing to someone else. As all nations do. Still, this type of article is only interesting when its in a context of lots of information.

Where is the article about the activist mother of a Juarez murder victim shot dead in front of city hall, then, her husband's business set a flame, or just this week, the son of a powerful lawyer took a full military escort, complete with torture and brandishing arms, to take back two children the divorced mother had legal custody?

Thank you HuffPo for covering Mexico at all. I wish that we had more information shared because its vital with what is happening with our tax dollars in funding this narco war, and as the effects are now spilling out to other countries in the region. We have participated, if not funded, but certainly demand the drugs that are involved, in a war that is hitting Guatelmala, Honduras, what a mess this has all created.

'Just say no' was a total failure if our country is the largest consumer of drugs on the planet. People are saying 'yes' and funding a terrible war on the world, while we have our government say no - denying the whole circle. We can only manage 145 million dollars to help those Central American companies deal with the Zeta spill over?

[realitytrumpsbull]

11:28 AM on 01/23/2011

If you want to stop the problem, close the border. Period. Totally. Completely. US dopers? Well, we're going to have to figure out some kind of government-centric answer to help people get unhooked. There's always jail, 6 months in jail with 3 squares a day=gets the monkey off your back, without causing undue taxpayer burden.

[entreMundo]

01:57 PM on 01/23/2011

You seem to be extremely deluded about just exactly what a "border" is, and the type of terrain that it encompasses. Did someone explain it to you as a door, or a gate or something?

I also doubt you are as unintelligent as you claim re: US dopers needing "open borders" to get their dope from Mexico. Nice try!

[RobH413]

11:31 AM on 01/23/2011

An off-topic post, but a true story. The miserably failed "Drug War" in the US is causing grief, violence, death, and corruption in Mexico and elsewhere. All so that we in the US can continue this absurd campaign that lands millions of mostly black and brown people in prisons and turns them into second class citizens by hanging the "Drug Felon" label on them, affecting forever their right to vote, their housing and employment options long after their prison sentences end.

Mexico has enough problems of its own without having us export our problems to them.

[Xylem44]

10:01 AM on 01/23/2011

I am so glad it's not Wilmer Valderama as I initially thought.

Having said that... After listening to the interview and learning of the actual evidence currently on file, I am convinced of the following. Both he and the chick are guilty, but of different things.

He is guilty of having relations with a minor even if he did not know it. And she is guilty of trying to extort money through this false accusation. Additionally, her employers should also be charged for hiring minors to work in an adult place.

The fact that she stayed with him willingly for at least 7 hours after the alledged rape; went with him to the airport to say goodbye and then asked to be invited to his future gigs three days later, tell me there is no victim here. Lastly, when the limo driver asked if she had a good time with the singer her response was "it was worth it". I hope that dude gets a fair trial and that he learns his lesson.

[DevilNymph]

07:01 PM on 01/22/2011

Kally, you got some 'splanin' to do.

[youngbuck]

06:11 PM on 01/22/2011

Amazing that this celebrity scandal grips Mexico ! But the onging rapes, torture & murders of over 380 young girls in Juarez Mexico doesn't faze them.

[realitytrumpsbull]

11:32 AM on 01/23/2011

There's 110 million people that call Mexico their home, if they don't want this kind of stuff to go on, then they need to organize themselves, and put a stop to it.

[entreMundo]

01:58 PM on 01/23/2011

If you actually believe that the people of Mexico have not been deeply "fazed" and traumatized by the violence that is affecting them, you've got some growing up to do.

[isaidit]

12:07 AM on 01/21/2011

Ay Kalimba!

[atila]

11:13 PM on 01/20/2011

It's really embarrasing how the Mexican media is giving too much notoriety to this case when today was the 10th aniversary since el "Chapo" ,the most dangerous drug dealer in the world "escaped" from a "high security" prison in Jalisco.

The Quintana Roo general attorney(cancun is part of Quintana Roo) is using this case to gain political points while drug dealers are invading cities like Chetumal ,Cancun and La Riviera Maya.
I don't know if this guy is innocent or not but, what this general attorney and the media are doing,is despicable.

[RobH413]

11:36 AM on 01/23/2011

True enough, but did you read the story? Even within the article, they are acknowledging that one reason the story is attracting all this attention is because of the need of the population to be distracted from all those things. This is the nature of people and the media. How much time was spent in American media on the Michael Jackson story, the Natalee Holloway story, the Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan stories? Obviously the public interest in those stories is far disproportionate to their actual importance in the world.

[Cougar29]

10:41 PM on 01/20/2011

Telemundo story #1!

[emilyanne]

08:36 PM on 01/20/2011

THIS is the Mexican rape scandal?

I was certain this article would be about the rape and torture warehouse found in Nuevo Leon on Tuesday.

Of course, if this guy is guilty, he needs to spend time in one of Mexico's fine prisons.

[dmherb]

07:08 PM on 01/20/2011

If the accused is guilty or not, it is distasteful how the media is handling it.

[risingsun4995]

01:21 PM on 01/20/2011

Allegations.

[UncleJimbo]

06:12 PM on 01/20/2011

Who is the Alligator?