1. Jaime Frausto-Cerna

2.  Juan Cortina - Oscar Chavez https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmF5jrzj SH0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmF5jrzj SH0  el corrido de gregorio cortes - los hermanos banda  “tequilero" ballads of the Prohibition era in the 1930s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fqPRglI z5Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdzOS Oju6rg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fqPRglI z5Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdzOS Oju6rg

3.  Contrabando y Traición - Los Tigres del Norte https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJCtrB GFTs0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJCtrB GFTs0  Sanguinarios del M1 - Movimiento Alterado https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzod0gFj HIw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzod0gFj HIw

4.  Before: Private parties or in bars.  Present: Streets, Markets, Night Clubs, houses, cars, parties, concerts.

5.  The Labor Ministry said in a press release that the increase brings to 67.29 pesos ($5.18) a day the minimum wage in zone A, which includes Mexico City. The minimum wage is slightly lower in other geographic zones.  "Narco Babies" blared the fat headlines of a Mexico City afternoon tabloid over a story about children as young as 8 involved in the distribution of drugs on the streets of the capital.

6.  Money  Guns  Cars  Woman  Mexicans glamorize the narco-traffickers as outlaws in fame and money. Musicians are largely responsible for the image that complicates the life-and-death hazards of the Drug War.

7.  El Halcón de la Sierra, Fabián Ortega Piñón, age 28, died of several gunshot wounds  Sergio Gómez, lead singer for K-Paz de la Sierra, was kidnapped and tortured.  Carlos Ocaranza Rodríguez, El Loco Elizalde  Sergio Vega, better known as El Shaka

8. NARCO-TRAFFICKERNARCO-CORRIDISTA  In the US the market for Mexican regional music, including narco corridos, is worth about $300 million a year  Los Tigres' classic album “Jefe De Jefes” is certified RIAA Platinum for selling more than a million copies in the US alone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v =gl4K3Uco1ME

9.  AFP. "Mexico’s Drug Balladeer Has a Price to Pay - Pune Mirror -." Pune Mirror. N.p., 15 Apr. 2014. Web. 25 Apr. 2014.  Angeles, Time Mcgirk/Los. "Narcocorridos: The Balladeers of Mexico's Drug Wars." Time. Time Inc., 01 Nov. 2010. Web. 03 Apr. 2014.  CBS, NEWS. "Mexico: Sing about Drugs, Go to Jail." CBSNews. CBS Interactive, 22 Jan. 2010. Web. 30 Apr. 2014.  Flanders, Kai. "The Deadly World of Mexican Narco-Ballads | NOISEY." NOISEY. Vice, 28 May 2013. Web. 14 Mar. 2014.  Hastings, Deborah. "'Narcocorridos,' the Popular Latin Music Styled after American Hip Hop, Bring about Bloodshed and Grammy Wins." NY Daily News. N.p., 17 Dec. 2013. Web. 28 Mar. 2014.  Moore, Molly. "Where It All Begins With `Narco'; Drug Trade's Spread in Mexico Gives Words a New Start: [FINAL Edition]." The Washington Post 111.58 (1999): Pro-Quest. Web. 19 Apr. 2014.  Morrison, Amanda Maria. "Musical Trafficking: Urban Youth and the Narcocorrido- Hardcore Rap Nexus." Western Folklore 67.4 (2008): 379-96. JSTOR. Web. 08 Mar. 2014.  Summers, Chris, and Dominic Bailey. "Mexico's Forbidden Songs." BBC News. BBC, 10 Mar. 2004. Web. 02 Apr. 2014.  Univision. "Cada vez más adolescentes son víctimas del narcotráfico en México" Univision.com., 06 Dec. 2013. Web. 17 Apr. 2014.

10. Jaime Frausto-Cerna