"Socalj" for Borderland Beat José Ángel del Villar, Producer and CEO of the record label Del Entertainment, was sentenced in the ...

"Socalj" for Borderland Beat   The CEO of a Latin music conglomerate and his talent agency were found guilty by a jury today of co...

"Socalj" for Borderland Beat The performances in Jalisco were cancelled after the narcomanta was found in Hermosillo, Sonora on Ja...

 "Socalj" for Borderland Beat On the day that Peso Pluma attended the MTV VMA Awards, CJNG threatened the singer. On Sept. 10, two...

Narcocorridos: Mexican ruling party proposes ban on songs that glorify drug trafficking. Mexico city - A new proposal from Mexico's ...

Mexicos narco culture sings praises of drug violence. On Tuesday, joggers discovered the decapitated boides of three men near a bullfight...

Everybody knows about Mexico’s bloody drug cartel wars, the narcotics mafia, executions and the state’s often inadequate attempts to curb t...

Mexican crooners sing about drug cartels, and sometimes find themselves the victims of violence. Special to GlobalPost A man plays his ...

Can a musical genre be considered so dangerous as to be banned from the radio? Yes, according to the authorities in some parts of Mexico who...

The news of Mexico's bloody cartel war is reflected in a controversial folk-music genre called narcocorridos, or drug ballads. They...

In the next coming posts we will be exploring the significance of the narco ballads and how they have impacted the drug cartels and the dru...