During the 1990s , he acted in films and continued to make records with Seis/Son del Solar . In 1994 , he mounted his unsuccessful Panamanian presidential bid , founding the party '' Movimiento Papa Egoró '' . The album that followed this experience , '' La Rosa de los Vientos '' , won the 1997 Grammy for Best Tropical Latin Performance , and all its songs were by Panamanian songwriters , recorded using all Panamanian musicians . In 1996 , Blades along with Son Miserables performed " No Te Miento ( I Am Not Lying to you ) " for the AIDS benefit album '' Silencio = Muerte : Red Hot Latin '' produced by the Red Hot Organization . In 1997 , Blades headed the cast of singer/songwriter Paul Simon 's first Broadway musical , '' The Capeman '' , based on a true story about a violent youth who becomes a poet in prison , which also starred Marc Anthony and Ednita Nazario . His many film appearances include '' The Milagro Beanfield War '' ( 1988 ) , '' The Two Jakes '' ( 1990 ) , '' Predator 2 '' ( 1990 ) , '' Mo ' Better Blues '' ( 1990 ) , '' Color of Night '' ( 1994 ) , and '' Devil 's Own '' ( 1997 ) . He also guest-starred in an amusing episode of the '' The X Files '' titled , " El Mundo Gira " ( " As The World Turns " ) . He played immigration agent ( la migra ) , Conrad Lozano , who works with Mulder and Scully to solve unexplained murders involving both rural California migrant workers and the Mexican folklore of El Chupacabra . In 1999 , he played Mexican artist Diego Rivera in Tim Robbins ' '' Cradle Will Rock '' . In the 2003 film '' Once Upon a Time in Mexico '' , starring Johnny Depp , Antonio Banderas , and Willem Dafoe , he played the role of a retired FBI agent
1997 Grammy
39th Annual Grammy Awards
Rubén Blades