Guillermo López Langarica

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El Canaca
In this
Spanish name, the first or paternal surname
is López and the second or maternal family name is Langarica.

Guillermo López Langarica (1968 – 25 September 2008) was a Mexican YouTube celebrity, who accidentally rose to fame in 2007. Prior to his death he was mostly known as 'El Canaca', (the Canaca guy). More recently he is remembered as 'Don Memo'.

Early life

He was born in 1968 in El Salto, Jalisco.

Rise to fame

López Langarica came to the public spotlight when he was detained in

driving under the influence of alcohol in 2002. He was interviewed and featured in a TV show titled 'El Show de la Barandilla', which mostly aired comical police interventions against drunkards, through Canal 4 de Guadalajara, a company belonging to the Televisa
consortium. A few years later, his video was uploaded to YouTube and quickly gained nationwide fame.

In the video, López Langarica explains to the

cameraman to tape his right ankle, angrily accusing the officers of restraining him like a pig
. (¡Me amarraron como puerco!)

The YouTube video was an instant phenomenon, receiving over ten million views to date.[1] López Langarica rose to national fame because of his comical explanation of events, places, and his catchphrases '¿Y qué? No he chocado' (So what? I haven't crashed yet), 'Apúntele bien' ("Write this down"), 'Soy hijo del papá' (I'm son of the father) referring to his relation with "the owner", '¡Me amarraron como puerco!' (They tied me like a pig!!), and his definition of the acronym CANACA.

Truthfulness of statements

In Mexico there is no organization by the name 'CANACA'. Some of the closest examples would be the Cámara Nacional de Comercio (CANACO), the Confederación Nacional de Agrupaciones de Comerciantes de Centros de Abastos (CONACCA),[2] and the Cámara Nacional de Autotransportes de Carga (CANACAR).[3]

Promotora Mexicana Gaitán (PROMEGA) does exist, it is an enterprise which

strawberries, with offices both in Guadalajara and Mexico City. The former is located at 6th Street's 630. The phone number is +52(33)3671-3333.[4] Whether López Langarica worked there or not is unknown. No one by the name Miguel Ángel Gaytán works at PROMEGA, but there is a Miguel Ángel Gaytán Uribe who served as the vigilancy committee's president at the Unión de Comerciantes del Mercado de Abastos de Guadalajara (UCMA).[5]

Death

On the night of September 25, 2008, López Langarica was run over in Guadalajara by a

newspapers.[6]

Legacy

Numerous parodies and tributes spawned after the original video's popularity, such as imitations, animated versions, musical remixes, and even religious

cell phone
number.

More recently, some people in Guadalajara claim to have witnessed apparitions by López Langarica's ghost, leading users on the net to jokingly refer to him as 'San Canaca'.

See also

  • El Fua, another Mexican Internet meme

References

  1. ^ "EL DUEÑO DE LA CANACA". Retrieved 2022-07-01 – via YouTube.
  2. ^ "CONACCA". 23 October 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-10-23. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-12-04. Retrieved 2008-11-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ "About". Promotora Mexicana Gaitán. Archived from the original on 2008-10-18. Retrieved 2008-11-24.
  5. ^ "Comite". Ucma.com.mx.
  6. ^ "Muere El Canaca, estrella de You Tube". El Universal (in Spanish). 25 September 2008. Retrieved 15 October 2018.

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