Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta: “They say that narco-corridos promote violence, the problem is that there is a lot of violence in Mexico”

Everything changed with the arrival of Los Tigres del Norte. The publication in the late 1980s of Corridos Forbididos (1989) put in fashion among the Mexican public the variant of narcocorridos, songs that dealt with stories of drug trafficking. But it was not the first time that something like this was heard. The professor of the State University of San Diego Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta (Tijuana, 60), one of the great experts of the race, spen…

The Morelos government dismisses the prohibition of narco-corridos, but suggested mayors avoid this type of msica at public events.

The narcocorridos, along with the reggaeton, are the two musical genres of greatest popularity and growth in Mexico, however, behind the former there is usually a hidden economy, that is, criminal organizations and capos that pay artists to compose straight on their exploits and in the most profound cases, money laundering through these artists.