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Yu-Mex
In 1948, the Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito (May 7, 1892 - May 4, 1980) broke up with the Soviet leader Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (Dec. 21, 1879 - March 5, 1953).
Yugoslav authorities had to look somewhere else for film entertainment. They found a suitable country in Mexico: it was far away, the chances of Mexican tanks appearing on Yugoslav borders were slight and, best of all, in Mexican films they always talked about revolution in the highest terms. How could an average moviegoer know that it was not the Yugoslav revolution?
The Mexican influence spread to all popular culture: fake Mexican bands formed and their records can still can be found in flea markets today.
Milić Ljubomir and Paloma:Divorce/Ballad of Sad Life

My wife is talking all the time how I just drift around and don’t care about her that I come home at the dawn
What can I do when beautiful women are after me all the time and at least one is pulling me by the shoulder
Every morning when I return home my wife bables to the evening Oh, enough! I’ll apply for divorce!

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‘Un Dia de Vida’, is the film credited with starting this infatuation with Mexican film and music in what was once Yugoslavia. Notice the subtitles. Interestingly, ‘Las Mañanitas’ has since been re-interpreted as ‘Mama Huanita’, a tribute to mothers appropriately named after the mother in film.

Link: Gallery of Old “YuMex” Record Covers
Thanks to Sad Burro for posting this!

Yu-Mex

In 1948, the Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito (May 7, 1892 - May 4, 1980) broke up with the Soviet leader Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (Dec. 21, 1879 - March 5, 1953).

Yugoslav authorities had to look somewhere else for film entertainment. They found a suitable country in Mexico: it was far away, the chances of Mexican tanks appearing on Yugoslav borders were slight and, best of all, in Mexican films they always talked about revolution in the highest terms. How could an average moviegoer know that it was not the Yugoslav revolution?

The Mexican influence spread to all popular culture: fake Mexican bands formed and their records can still can be found in flea markets today.

Milić Ljubomir and Paloma:Divorce/Ballad of Sad Life

My wife is talking all the time
how I just drift around
and don’t care about her
that I come home at the dawn

What can I do
when beautiful women are after me all the time
and at least one
is pulling me by the shoulder

Every morning when I return home
my wife bables to the evening
Oh, enough!
I’ll apply for divorce!

mp3

‘Un Dia de Vida’, is the film credited with starting this infatuation with Mexican film and music in what was once Yugoslavia. Notice the subtitles. Interestingly, ‘Las Mañanitas’ has since been re-interpreted as ‘Mama Huanita’, a tribute to mothers appropriately named after the mother in film.