Why much of Mexico is banning pop ballads about drug traffickers
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Why much of Mexico is banning pop ballads about drug traffickers
MEXICO CITY — In a packed nightclub in Mexico City, hundreds of young people sang along as a band played a popular song narrating the life of a foot soldier for the Sinaloa drug cartel.I like to work/ And if the order is to kill / You don’t question it.And for those who misbehave/ There’s no chance to explain/ I throw them into the grave.Narcocorridos — or drug ballads — are more popular than ever in Mexico, where a new generation that came of age during the ongoing drug war has embraced songs that recount and often glamorize both the spoils and ..