Fire for Mexican drug lords are pop hits, but the law turns against them

Luis R. Conriquez, Texcoco, Mexico, took the stage at a popular exhibition as one of the head acts.

Once after calling “Corridos King” Board The magazine, Mexican musician is famous for the so-called Narcocorridos, a version of Traditional Mexican Ballads celebrating drug cartels.

However, early this month, Mr. Conriquez announced that he would not fulfill several signatures on social media. Instead, he brought this famous genre of these famous music outside Mexico, critics attracts to the mercy of a music that promotes the destruction of violence and criminal activity.

Crowd Mr. Conriquez and oozy Tools after leaving the scene from him and his group.

“Mr. Conriquez is not able to read what people want to hear” Mr. Conriquez gossip We are connected to the social media “but the cause of zero corridors.”

For Mexico, it was a moment of Mexico wrestling with the influence of organized crime across the country To put pressure from Trump management to break the cartels and identity identified through popular culture.

In particular, violent disputes over Narcocorridos – the losses that glorify the cartels and thus the damage to Mexicans became a referendum in Mexico.

During the last month, more municipalities and states said they were almost banned from the genre, and they were criminals to play music that celebrated drug trafficking and other crimes. In the state of Mexico, Mr. Conriquez’s officials, officials He had warned Criminal cases can lead to fines and imprisonment, which performs songs that do or glorify.

“We believe that the society has been violent, drug or misogyny, Microria Seinbaum, Mr. Conriquez’s concert.

Corridos were around since the mid 19th century José Manuel is the author of a vorenzuela Arce, a sociology professor and three books in the genre. Songs were important for the story by explaining the tales of war heroes “Pancho” villa and the main points in history.

However, drug cartels began to take a stronger grip in Mexico in the 1970s, and the ballads began to reflect it. In recent decades, the former departments took bloody wars against cartels, as well as Joaquín along with the more clear and direct Narco leaders “El Chapo“The beautiful.

More Narcocorrido styles, mahning, rapping and critidos that combine traditional Mexican music also appeared as a criridos tumbados. “Tumbado movement rides on social media, riding artists,” said Mr. Valenzuela.

Artists like Nathanel Cano (records) 310,00 People who are in Mexico last year), our pesoum (recipients) 8.5 billion meeting In 2023 on YouTube) and others have international stars since then.

Again, in recent months, the industry has strengthened its power against Narcocorridos.

Experts think that this last raid is still the strongest because Ms Sheenbaum put the public in front of the genre. At the beginning of this month, he announced a state-run national talent competition, offered recording deals as the best gifts for Corridos, related to drug-related and violent words.

“What we want is to preach music with other content,” Sheenbaum, who said, and rejected the right Narcocorrido bans.

Another factor, experts are the US government. Mr. Valenzuela Arce said that the Trump management was not tagged not only cartels Terrorist groupsAnd thus, thus, any association with them made a serious crime, but the musicians actually put pressure on the fact that Mexican officials also act. Times have reached the representatives of at least nine great artists and no one commented.

Last month, Los Al Barranco group, Guadalajara, Mexico in Guadalajara, US Visas were drawn in front of the best cartel leader. In the state Recently received trauma By cartel violence, group sorry and legislators moved to punish All public expressions included in the crimes, including nightclubs.

“I am a solid believer for freedom of expression, but not to release the consequences of this statement,” Christopher Landau, Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau, He said in X He added later on April 1: “The last thing you need is a pleasant matte for people who praise criminals and terrorists.”

Arturo, Mexican congressmen, musical, TV, films and video games “Federal” or “most effective” or “most effective” and “most impressive” and “Federal laws” as “most effective” and “Federal laws” are a Mexican congressman.

“This is a period for us to reflect what we all want to reflect.”

Since February, at least Have seven cities or state, or effective rules for narcocorridos or impacted rules. In Chihuahua, one of the first cities in Mexico, to adjust the violent words in 2015, mayor Marco Bonilla, in an interview with the law. Last year, the local government gathered a fine of $ 270,000.

“As long as we did not eliminate Narco culture in Mexico, we will not be able to eliminate the violence and crimes in our country,” he said. Bonilla.

Mr. Conriquez after his concert this month ago gossip He adapts the list of its words a specified list based on less open and local prohibitions. At the end of this week, it starts a tour of the United States.

The artist rejected commentary requests.

Other musicians followed the suit: a well-known group Grupo Firme, declared Before a concert in the state of aguascalientes where the government was forbidden song threat The day before, violence will not play narcocorridos.

Mexican Regional Musical Music Los Buuitres De Culiacán Sinaloa, who has several well-known narcocorridos, in a report established by several well-known Narcocorridos, said that Los Al Barranco is in an interview with other musicians.

Mr. Sosa, “Sad” administratively, in front of the genre, “He has passed through Mexico because it affects all of us,” he said, because they always spoke about the stories about the main figures without praising crimes.

“No banned answer,” Mr. Sosa, perhaps he preferred a regulation on the Internet to protect the young audience from certain words on the Internet. “The solution is education. You want to be a drug dealer to listen to a corridor, ‘Avengers’, you want to leave the movies like a superhero.”

His group faced censorship in Tijuana 15 years ago and began to sing more romantic songs and began to sing more romantic songs than Narco themes. He accepted not to celebrate Narcocorrido in 2010, as a father dedicated Now to the leader of the late Sinaloa Cartel.

In the last afternoon, Abel de Jesús Rozales Rza Rza Rza, 22-year-old Narcocorridos, played on a speaker working in this family’s clothing shop in Mexico. He grew up in listening to his family with his family.

He said the government is not only cartels, but to blame Mexico’s corruption and problems. The power of music just went so far.

“Everyone is at the disposal,” he said. “You can listen to Corridos and not a bad person.”

Emiliano Rodriguez Mega Contributing report.