Narcocorridos, or drug ballads, extoll drug cartels and their leaders. Corridos have long been used to tell stories in Mexico, sometimes recounting the exploits of bandits and outlaws. Many Mexican ...

El Enfermo with his pendant of Malverde, who some consider the narco patron saint, on May 14, 2025. (William Savinar/Courthouse News) MEXICO CITY (CN) — It all started at a March 29 concert at the ...

MEXICO CITY — At a Mexican military base, Captain Eduardo Barrón picks up not a rifle but a microphone. Swaying boot-to-boot, he belts out a song as the sounds of trumpets and accordions roar from a ...

Luis R Conriquez has been itching to make a rap and reggaeton album for a long time. Sure, he’s a corridos artist at heart, but he’d always wondered if other genres could work, too. “With everything ...

Mexican music is facing a crackdown. Local authorities are banning public performances of narcocorridos, popular ballads that romanticise drug cartels. As the country wrestles with the “effects of ...