"El Recuento De Los Daños" (The tale of the damages) is a single from the album ''

Más Turbada Que Nunca ''Más Turbada Que Nunca'' (the literal translation is More Disturbed Than Ever, but it's actually a humorous pun on ''Masturbated than Ever'') is the fourth studio album released by pop/rock singer Gloria Trevi Gloria de ...

'' by the Mexican singer

Gloria Trevi Gloria de los Ángeles Treviño Ruiz (born February 15, 1968), known as Gloria Trevi (), is a Mexican singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, television hostess, music video director and businesswoman known as "The Supreme Diva of Mexican Pop". ...

. The song was released on Mexican radio in 1994. Though the song, like most Gloria Trevi songs of the day, used indirect references, "El Recuento De Los Daños" became well known for its music video aired on public television that broke taboos while bolting out lyrics explaining the depths of

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, in a heavily

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and still traditional Mexico of 1994.

Music video

Though technically a love-related song, it exposed the taboo and hitherto unspoken practice of men punching pregnant women they conceived out of wedlock in order to kill the fetus (''del firme impacto de tus manos'', "the firm impact of your hands"Gloria Trevi
- Billboard.com) by purposely eye opening lyrics. The music video shows a girl with blood drenching her swollen abdomen (a miscarriage), as well as a

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. The lyrics at the beginning of the chorus also goes ''Yo no puedo reponerme de ese beso que me subio al cielo, que es el mismo que ahora me hunde en el infierno'' ("I cannot recover from that kiss that took me to Heaven, the same one which now plunges me to hell").

Effects

Later, Trevi herself was sentenced to jail for conspiring with director to sexually abuse women. After her acquittal on lack of evidence and release from jail, Trevi in 2007 sued a Mexican promoter who accused her of murdering her own child she lost while in prison. Fans heavily suspected that she was legally framed and jailed related to her boldness to speak out against social ills. The song's title was used for an

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investigative program concerning the scandal.

Top

The song hit top of the Latin charts in America as well as Mexico.

References

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