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A narcocorrido is a kind of Mexican music which evolved out of the Norteño folk corrido tradition, using a danceable, accordion-based polka as a rhythmic base. Corridos have long described the poor and destitute, bandits and other criminals, as well as illegal immigrants to the United States, the first corridos that focus on drug Cartels -- the "narco" in the name narcocorrido is short for narcotics – have been dated to the 1930’s. (Ramírez-Pimienta:“Del corrido de narcotráfico al narcocorrido"). Narcocorrido lyrics refer to particular events, and even include real dates and places. The lyrics tend to speak approvingly of the criminal Drug Cartel activities.

Among the earliest exponents of narcocorrido music were Los Alegres de Teran, who recorded many songs during the 1950s and 1960s about "contrabandistas" or smugglers of contraband. Although most of the smuggling mentioned by Los Alegres did involve illegal narcotic drugs, this pioneering musical duo also sang about a shipment of contraband cinnamon, "La Canela," which was smuggled across across the border in an attempt to evade customs taxes. Their best-known narcocorrido remains "El Contrabando del Paso."

In the 1970s the band Los Tigres del Norte became well-known exponents of the narcocorrido. Their earliest hits popularized the style, starting off with their first song, "Contrabando y Traicion" ("Contraband and Betrayal"), and with such continuations like "Los Tres Gallos" (The Three Roosters; alternative title: Three Best Friends), "La Camioneta Gris" ("The Gray Pick-Up"), and "La Mafia Muere" ("The Mob Dies").

In the 1980s, Rosalino "Chalino" Sanchez took up the composition of narcocorridos. Known throughout Mexico as "El Pelavacas" (Cow Skin Peeler), El Indio (The Indian, from his corrido "El Indio Sanchez"), and "Mi Compa" (My Friend), Sanchez was a Mexican immigrant living in Los Angeles. He created a business writing corridos about people he met in the cantinas and swap meets of immigrant Los Angeles -- many of whom were from the drug-drenched regions of northwest Mexico. Setting these stories to music, he put them on cassettes and soon was selling thousands of copies in and around Los Angeles. Chalino Sanchez was murdered in 1992 after a concert in Culiacán, Sinaloa. He was only 31 years old. In death, he became a legend and one of the most influential musicians to emerge from Los Angeles in the last quarter century. His death sparked a boom in narcocorridos and the rise of dozens of imitators, sometimes known as

Chalinillos (Little Chalinos).

From the 1990s through the early 2000s, the number of bands that played narcocorridos increased dramatically. Among the most popular groups that performed such songs were Los Capos de Mexico, Pedro Rivera, Juan Rivera, Banda Herencia De Jalisco, Los Huracanes del Norte, Los Inquietos Del Norte, Los Morros Del Norte, Los Tucanes de Tijuana, Los Amos De Nuevo Leon, Los Cuates De Sinaloa, Lupillo Rivera, El Potro de Sinaloa, Los Originales de San Juan, Grupo Exterminador, Tigrillo Palma, Beto Quintanilla, Los Gatos de Sinaloa, Los Canelos de Durango, and Los Razos de Sacramento y Reynaldo. For some of these groups, the narcocorrido was only one of many song styles utilized; others specialized in narcocorridos almost exclusively.

Various companies, governmental agencies, and individuals have sought to ban narcocorridos. These attempts include a voluntary radio station black-out in Baja California. Representative Casio Carlos Narváez explained that radio executives did not want to make "people who break the laws of our country into heroes and examples". Former President of Mexico Vicente Fox also proposed banning narcocorridos.

Below are some Narcocorrido examples from Youtube: (Warning - some contain 'Graphic' imagery)

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Drug Cartels threaten Tijuana cops on radio, then kill them

TIJUANA  -- Over 6000 dead in Mexico Cartel Gang War

Mexican drug gangs are breaking into Tijuana police radio frequencies to issue chilling death threats to cops which they then carry out, demoralizing security forces in a worsening drug war.

“You're next, bastard ... We're going to get you,” an unidentified drug gang member said over the police radio in the city of Tijuana after naming a policeman.

The man also threatened a second cop by name and played foot-stomping “narcocorrido” music, popular with drug cartels, over the airwaves.

“No one can help them,” an officer named Jorge said of his threatened colleagues as he heard the threats in his patrol car.

Sure enough, two hours later the dead bodies of the two named policemen were found dumped on the edge of the city, their hands tied and bullet wounds in their heads.

Cartels killed some 530 police in Mexico last year, some of them corrupt officers who were working for rival gangs. Others were killed in shoot-outs or murdered for working against the gangs or refusing to turn a blind eye to drug shipments.

Violence has hit shocking levels in Tijuana, over the border from San Diego, since President Felipe Calderon launched an army crackdown on traffickers in late 2006, stirring up new wars between rival cartels over smuggling routes.

The drug war is scaring tourists and investors away from northern Mexico, forcing some businesses to shutter just as the country heads into recession this year.

Badly-paid Tijuana municipal police, often accused of collaborating with rival wings of the local Arellano Felix cartel, are badly demoralized, senior officers say.

“These death threats are part of the psychological warfare that organized crime is using against officers,” said Tijuana police chief Gustavo Huerta.

“Before, the gangs began infiltrating the radio after a police execution, which was bad enough, but now they are doing it beforehand and the force feels terrorized,” he said.

WORN-OUT BODY ARMOR

Officers in threadbare uniforms and worn-out body armor say they are no match for drug gangs with powerful weapons and state-of-the art technology. Some police cling to religious trinkets and pray for protection, but many others have taken early retirement.

“I and many of my colleagues are thinking our time in the force is over,” said Olivia Vidal, a Tijuana policewoman with 15 years in the force. “I have three kids. Two are at university. I would never let them follow in my footsteps.”

Drug hitmen are brazenly using pirate radio decoders to flag police murders in advance on the airwave, often playing the brassy accordion-led “narcocorrido” ballads that lionize the escapades of heavily armed, womanizing traffickers.

The gangsters use the decoder to access the radio frequency and then use a transmitter linked to a CD player and a microphone to transmit the narcocorrido music and the threats.

In one recent attack, hitmen killed two officers in their vehicle in Tijuana and then blasted drug ballads over police radio while naming their next targets, just as officers were reaching the first crime scene.

Some gangs sarcastically offer their “condolences” over the air after an execution, broadcasting messages like: “We are so sorry.”