Thursday, December 22, 2011

Sinaloa cartel OKs Mexicos newest drug ballads | The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Scranton PA - Features

(AP) Trumpets and trombones blast across a rodeo ring where women in miniskirts dance with men in cowboy hats and gold chains. Some fans try to climb onto the stage while others whoop to the deafening music and sing along to an outlaw ballad about one of the most-wanted criminal suspects in North America, an alleged drug kingpin.

"We take care of El Mayo

"Here no one betrays him...

"We stay tough with AK-47s and bazookas at the neck

"Chopping heads off as they come

"We're bloody-thirsty crazy men

"Who like to kill."

At the microphone is Alfredo Rios, whose stage name is "The Komander." He's a singer of Movimiento Alterado "Altered Movement" in English a new commercial brand of "narcocorrido" ballads that bluntly describe drug violence to the oompah beat of Mexico's norteno music.



Sinaloa cartel OKs Mexicos newest drug ballads | The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Scranton PA - Features

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