Mexican Narcocorridos

Mexico’s drugs wars as well as bloody drug cartels are echoed in a controversial folk music genre commonly known as narco corridos or simply as drug ballads. They tell the stories allied to shootouts, drug lords, betrayals including daring criminal operations. Narco corridos are not a new style in Mexican music, in fact, they have been around for years, and they are popular among the old and the young. This genre has evolved to be modern fugitive music that fuses the emotional responses of antique ballads with the tense gravel of mobster rap. From global idols to rural artists documenting their neighborhood current events in the regions subjugated by guerilla war, narco corridos provides the songwriters in their homes with unique but

Mexican corridos and the subgenre, narcocorridos, are very popular in today’s Hispanic music culture. Like any other musical genre, there are people who are for corridos and people who are against them. The people against corridos frown upon this music, because they believe the lyrics and stories (in corridos) glorify and promote violence, drug trafficking, and criminals. In their eyes, corridos are so problematic, they believe the best thing to do is to erase and/or ban corridos from all music culture. They believe that banning corridos would somehow stop sending people the “wrong” message. On the other hand, the audiences that enjoy corridos feel a connection to the stories and lyrics. Typically, this audience is made up of Mexicans, Mexican-Americans, and Hispanics. Although some people believe that corridos glorify criminal acts, others feel like these songs tell the stories people are too scared to talk about, or that is not often seen or heard in the popular media. These songs mirror stories of people’s

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CBS news shared that Mexicos ruling party is againt artists singing Narco Corridos, in fact they stated "We cannot accept it as normal. We cannot exalt these people because they themselves are distributing these materials among youths to lead them into a lifestyle where the bad guy wins," These rulers are trying to express their thoughts and are stating and reinforcing the laws that illegal drugs weapons and violent attitudes are unexcused. In other words these people are trying to say that if things such as drugs weapons etc. are illegal why singing promoting would and influencing others by singing Narco corridos should be legal. Artists that sing these types of songs may think that by singing that, they make a way of living but this is actually

All over the southwest U.S there have been drug cartels which smuggle drugs and weapons from country to country illegally. More recently

Drug cartels have been an issue for Mexico over a century now, according to Congressional Research Service. This issue had led to assassination against innocent people, many individuals have been threaten, murdered and even kidnapped. In the year of 1940, Mexico was a big source of marijuana and heroin which created these big Drug trafficking organizations that still exist today for example; in Tijuana, MX “The Arellano Felix Organization”, Sinaloa, MX “Cartel Del Chapo”, “Los Zetas”, “Beltran Leyva Organization” and “La Familia Michoacana”. The once-coherent organizations and their successors are still operating, both in conflict with one another and at times working in collaboration. The reason I chose this topic was because, six years ago my family decided to moved back to Mexico and during my time there I was able to experience many violent situations.

In a country of struggling economies, many have viewed the drug trade as one South American’ s most successful businesses. Latin America 's drug trafficking industry has been depicted in United States popular culture through motion pictures such as Scarface and Traffic. The purpose of my research is to take away society’s perception of what Hollywood has depicted drug trade to be and bring out what narcotics trafficking really is, as well as trying to coincide with the motivations of those people who take part in this. I will present the origins of drug trafficking, case studies regarding two countries (Mexico and Colombia), as well as the overall effects of the business on South America and United States. Drug Trafficking in South America starts in the early 19th century.

Illicit drug trade between Mexico and the United States, estimated between $17 billion and $38 billion a year in 2009 by the Drug Intelligence Center, has a long and storied past. Cartels operated with relative impunity from government prosecution during the seventy year reign of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, (PRI). The movement from an authoritarian government system of the PRI to the liberal democracy initiated by the election victory of the National Action Party, (PAN), candidate, Vicente Fox, in 2000, disrupted the status quo. Election gains by PAN Representatives disrupted long standing agreements between the cartels and government officials which led to the increased violence that

But recent investigations have revealed new numbers, between 2007 and 2014, more than 164,000 Mexicans were victims of homicide and “some counts have blamed the drug war for as much as 55 percent of all homicides. Others have put the estimate as low as 34 percent” (Breslow, 2015). Drug-related crimes are hard to accredit to drug-related crimes because of its nature. Even before 2006, crimes were hardly related to drug activities and criminal organizations, it was after 2006 when, because of the raise of violence and the social media coverage of the acts violence within cartels, authorities start noticing and recognizing such crimes as drug related. Mexico as a country has had a violent past, and the violence has not stopped. The roots of the ongoing conflict between the Mexican government and the drug cartels can be traced back within Mexico’s own culture and

The most recent case is Calderon’s War on Drugs; but despite its efforts, opium production jumped from 71 tons in 2005 to 425 tons in 2009 and cannabis cultivation has increased from 5600 hectares in 2005 to 17,500 hectares in 2009 (Mercille 2011). Therefore, Mexican drug cartels persist in the modern era and show no signs of diminishing while sustaining the growth in drug addiction for merely profit.

The Mexican drug cartels have been a cancer that has grown through out Mexico. Influenced by Colombian cartels, such as the Pablo Escobar’s Medellin and the Cali Cartel. In 2008, over 5,600 people were killed in Mexico; many were torture/or beheaded (Hixson, 2009). It has stretched from the border town of Tijuana all the way to the beaches of Cancun. Many people have been robbed, tortured, kidnapped, injured, and murdered through out the domestic drug war that is going on in Mexico. Police officers have been known to take bribes from different drug traffickers, which has given more power to the drug cartels. Even some politicians have been accused of being backed by particular cartels. Felipe Calderon, Mexico’s current President has taken

Universidad Autonoma De Sinaloa states that when interviews where done to different universities to get their opinions about Narco Corridos, there was two types of answers the students who attended to regular school stated that they loved Narco corridps and they admired the type of music. On the other side they made interviews on a much known school and students from there shared their disgust for the type of music. The interviewers came out with the conclusion that depending on where students grow up, go to school and their environment has a lot to do whether they will like the type of music or not. I agree with this inquest that your preferences are based on education norms and environment. When someone is taught to do the right thing they

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, popular music and culture became significant influences on the lives of many individuals within the city of Los Angeles. East Los Angeles (“East L.A.” or “the Eastside”), in particular, was a center of flourishing musical, cultural, and social scenes with strong connections to the changing Chicano/a identity. Under this environment in which the Chicano movement (moviemiento) continued to prevail, a large number of socially aware and politically active, Latin-fusion “Chicano” bands were developed. One of such was the Ozomatli band, who strived to express their activist viewpoints through popular music. The spatial context of the band’s emergence, their links to past musical movements, and their implementation of a wide array of musical styles and genres all define their impact on Chicano identity in Los Angeles. Through their music, the Ozomatli band has showed much about the importance of the changing Chicano culture and served as the framework for cultural and social dynamics of present-day Los Angeles.

Music from the United States is also influential in Latin America. Cali, Columbia is reported - to some degree - to be a site of cultural identification with the phenomena and meaning of Rap music, and this serves as a positive example of U.S. influence. The significance embedded in this issue is very complex of course, involving the history of slavery, as well as current