A Norteno Band (a style of music
particular to northern Mexico and southern Texas which has a ballady-sound and
heavy use of accordions, and is also fond of a particular type of song
glorifying cartel bosses called Narcocorridos. In the past, Norteno bands who
sing Narcocorridos have been jailed for songs glorifying drug trafficking.
Los Tigres Del Norte, one of the
most popular Norteno bands, was banned from Cuidad Juarez (the mammoth city
across from El Paso, Texas), in 2012, for the same songs.
Now, Norteno bands, or at least
one, has stepped it up further, and been busted for actually trafficking
drugs. KHOU reports that the Alamo based group Zinzezero
was searched at the Falfurrias checkpoint in South Texas (which is a hugely
busy drug and immigration checkpoint), and found to have 630 pounds of cocaine
in a false compartment in the bus. It’ll
be pretty hard to claim that amount was for personal use and not for
trafficking. Even 80’s hair-band drug
use wouldn’t approach 630 pounds for one tour.
So now the bands that glorify drug
trafficking have been found participating.
Makes those little warnings on the front of CD’s seem less than
adequate. Gives “keeping it real” a
little more credence as a motto.
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