Cartel de ... Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat Twitter TY SR Two members of La Barredora were captured, interrogated then executed. Statue of liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"Guess they should put a sign that says sorry closed for the summer! “One musician had a story of being asked to play at a party in the Sierra [mountains often controlled by criminals] in Sinaloa,” said Helena Simonett, professor of music and Latin American studies at Vanderbilt University. Calderon will not be able to root out the good politicians from the bad, things just aren't that simple. Initially sung from town to town about the heroes of the Mexican-American war in the 1840s and other Robin Hood-style figures, corridos have grown increasingly associated with Mexico’s drug violence which has claimed more than 55,000 lives since 2006. Copyright - Borderland Beat - . There was a burst of gunfire, and the Caddie spun out of control, coming to a halt 30 metres off the road. Corridos are regional Mexican songs that started off as war ballads but in recent years the topic of the songs has turned to folk songs about drug lords and their exploits. duh...just because people eat it don't mean they should have it fed to them, rap glorifys, romantacises, and promotes a criminal lifestyle, the music company promoters make a fat living from it, what if they promoted songs about the bad aspects of the criminal lifestyle, addiction, prison, death, destruction of familys, destruction of whole neighborhoods, enrichment, and empowerment of evil people, what if it was put down to be a criminal , instead of promoted, IT WOULD MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE just like the fast food adds on tv, just because it is being pushed on you, and you are eating it , don't make it good for you, the corridos are not nearly as bad, they are in ballad style, and are more narrative in form, afro-american rap musica PROMOTES the lavish lifestyle, girls, fancy cars, violence, dis-respect of women, plus they target the poorer, younger ghetto men, it is so nastypromotion of criminality under the guise of art , or free speech should be tightly regulated, under promotion of criminal conspiracy laws, but the people who control the press, pop media, and music industry also control the govt.these same people are behind the drug business worlwidereally what is so cool about being a drug dealer and having your brains shot out at 24, or staying on the run for all of your life, surrounded by people who you can't trust, no family, nothing but a flash in the pan, but they really make it attractive with the rap musicat least the corridos have some realism to them, with the poor guy trying to make it big , but ending up tragic, calling someone a cracker is racist as well as saying the N word...why is it ok for some people to say it and not ok for others...if it is bad for one , it should be bad for all, but this is a USA problem, gracias a dios Mexico dosen't have THAT problemit makes me so sad to hear bad news about miguel german, mier , guerrro, i have spent a lot of time in that area, it is really sad that the good people there have had their lives taken over by the drug war, these little towns could have a real little tourist industry, that brings money to all the people , instead of living in fear, the Mexican govt should get really serious about guarding , and patrolling the area, to deny the malo hombres the space to do their fighting in, they seem to have given it over to them, and the Americans just stand across the river and watch it and are not allowed to do nothing, everbody knows who these people are, even when they cross over to go to rio grande city to go to walmart or heb, they drive the big suv's, and are not bothered, i think they have even bought the Americans off too. Like US hip-hop, which gives voice to grievances from the ghettos, corridos are used by artistes to articulate the experiences of Mexicans at home and in the US. ok smart guy...clarification.... first Canada: http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/596153next ...Mexico:http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/596153i never blamed it all on Mexico...quote :unquote "part of the blame is on the USA, deveras, but not all of it"it was my fault as an American that you were uninformed...but now you are ...the USA is the primary market...but not the only one...ok now you are better informed ...thanks to an 'ol bad American...awww...don't mention it ...you're welcome ...no problemohh...almost forgot the aztecs conquered and enslaved thousands of other smaller tribes...who do you think helped the Spanish overthrow them...further clarification...i love Mexico, my esposa is Mexican, i have family in Mexico....but the truth still stands...IT IS NOT ALL THE FAULT OF USAte entiendes mas bien ya. Follow Ildefonso Ortiz on Twitter and on Facebook. The magazine also claims that other gunmen had threatened local reporters in order to keep them from reporting on the attack. “They were first recorded in small studios and distributed at flea markets and record shops,” Edberg said of the early corridos industry. That's when singers get killed.". But, like struggling musicians from the ghettos of Los Angeles, the images of wealth, power and life in the fast lane in Rivera’s songs don’t always match with the reality of his own life. “To Mexicans, this was an imposed border,” Wald said. But Quintero says he doesn’t want people to think he's glorifying violence. At 28, he's now one of the most successful writers of “narco corridos”  — Mexican folk ballads about the drug war. Please let us know if you're having issues with commenting. One of those killed was identified as Luis Mendoza, 23, the lead singer for a popular local band named “Los Ronaldos,” which played regional norteño music and recently began releasing “narcocorridos” or narco music. In recent years many narco-corrido singers have been killed in Mexico. In the film, Quintero meets up with a client who hired him to write a corrido, and he sings an a capella version to the man inside an SUV. In their version of events, Chihuahua investigators claim that the shooting was carried out by a jealous man and his two friends after the singer had been spotted flirting with girlfriend. "calling someone a cracker is racist as well as saying the N word...why is it ok for some people to say it and not ok for others...if it is bad for one , it should be bad for all, but this is a USA problem, gracias a dios Mexico dosen't have THAT problem"It is and when caught, we will delete it, because in Borderlamd Beat is not allowed. When Quintero finishes the song, the client pulls out a bundle of cash to pay him, and Quintero promises he’ll record a version of it later. Mario Quintero Lara of Los Tucanes de Tijuana on stage: 'We have to behave well and pray to God for help and protection wherever we go,' he says. This is not a platform for racial motivated comments and are not tolerated. Tuesday afternoon on August 13, was killed Roberto Domínguez Trejo , lead singer of the band of narco-corridos "Los Hijos del Cartel". That aspect of corridos is just not there when they become soundtracks for public violence.”. Staying true to his grisly lyrics, Sanchez was murdered in 1992, facing the same fate as gangster rap stars Notorious BIG and Tupac Shakur. We can sit in traffic listening to disney music. Let's get Calderone ( Since he has so much influence in U.S. policy) to pressure Obama to BAN RAP music in the U.S. Ban that stupid TRASH! Handing me a self-produced album, he doesn’t seem likely to pay heed to the words of murdered rap star Notorious BIG who noted: “I don’t know what they want from me; it’s like the more money we come across the more problems we see.”, Follow Chris Arsenault on Twitter: @AJEchris, The odd friends: The young liberal and the elderly conservative. Illicit drug sales in the US, controlled primarily by Mexican cartels, net revenues of between $18bn and $39bn annually. The World needs you. “Sometimes I can make 5,000 pesos ($380) for playing a party, sometimes much less,” he told Al Jazeera. "I sing about it, I talk about it, but to a certain point where I don't get involved,” Quintero says. In Sinaloa and other Mexican states, radio stations have banned narcocorridos on the airwaves, in a move which barely affected the music’s popularity.