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Mexican ‘Corrido’ Music Becomes Anthem for Drug Traffickers, Film Shows
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Mexican ‘Corrido’ Music Becomes Anthem for Drug Traffickers, Film Shows

By Fox News Latino | 01/29/2013 - 13:36 | 0 Comments

If you’ve heard the song "La Cucaracha," you’ve heard a corrido before. Corridos are traditional Mexican folk ballads often played by ‘banda’ groups outfitted with tubas, trumpets, accordions and guitars.  

These days, a new blend of this type of music is being popularized by many norteño groups who sing about...

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Brazilian Tribe Vanishes After Suspected Drug Traffickers Raid Village

By Amaris Castillo | 08/10/2011 - 11:00 | 0 Comments

After suspected cocaine smugglers from Peru raided a jungle area in western Brazil, a lost Indian tribe that claimed the area as its home vanished according to Brazilian officials. Indian affairs experts in the largest South American country believe that the tribe might have run away in fear after the suspected smugglers raided a Brazilian guard post that was protecting...

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Pancho Villa Descendant Becomes Top Cop in Quintana Roo, Mexico

By Mariela Rosario | 05/05/2011 - 15:00 | 0 Comments

In a story so fantastical, it has to be true (because we seriously can not make this stuff up) Pancho Villa's great nephew Gen. Carlos Bibiano Villa Castillo has become the top cop in the coastal Quintana Roo state of Mexico.

And apparently, much like his uncle, Gen. Villa is not easily intimidated. Before he began his job at his new...

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UPDATE: Mexican Police Chief Marisol Valles Garcia Flees Country, Seeks Asylum in the U.S.

By Damarys Ocaña Perez | 03/08/2011 - 16:45 | 0 Comments

UPDATE: After being hailed as “the bravest woman in Mexico” for becoming a 20-year-old female police chief in a town where drug cartels had beheaded her predecessor, Marisol Valles Garcia of drug-embattled Pradexis Guerrero apparently crossed the border and is seeking asylum in the United States for herself and her infant son. Local officials fired her on...

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14-year-old Drug Cartel Hitman is an American Citizen

14-year-old Drug Cartel Hitman is an American Citizen

By Mariela Rosario | 12/08/2010 - 18:45 | 0 Comments

A 14-year-old boy was recently arrested and charged with murder while trying to cross the border from Mexico to San Diego. Authorities are claiming the young teen, named Edgar Jimenez, aka "El Ponchis," has been working as a hitman for the Pacifico Sur drug cartel based out of Cuernavaca, Mexico.

He reportedly worked alongside his 16-year-old sister...

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Who's That Girl? Marisol Valles Garcia
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Who's That Girl? Marisol Valles Garcia

By Damarys Ocaña Perez | 10/22/2010 - 14:00 | 6 Comments

Mexico's bloody drug wars have come to this: The new police chief in Pradexis Guadalupe Guerrero, Mexico, in the border state of Chihuahua, is Marisol Valles Garcia, a petite 20-year-old college student who stepped up when no one else would. Here’s what you need to know about this brave chica:

Who She Is: Born and grew up in Ciudad...

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20-Year-old Woman is New Police Chief of Guadalupe, Mexico
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WATCH: 20-Year-old Woman is New Police Chief of Guadalupe, Mexico

By Mariela Rosario | 10/22/2010 - 10:40 | 0 Comments

Marisol Valles Garcia is one brave Latina. The 20-year-old criminology student and mother was hired just this week as the newest police chief of Guadalupe, Mexico—a farming town located just miles away from the border in a region that has been riddled by cartel violence and drug trafficking.

"I accepted [the job] because I liked the project and I...

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The Jonas Brothers Cancel Mexican Tour Stop

By Mariela Rosario | 10/19/2010 - 16:00 | 0 Comments

The Jonas Brothers recently canceled the Monterrey, Mexico stop of their Look Me in the Eyes tour due to a string of drug related violence in the area.

"Due to the recent series of unfortunate events in the city of Monterrey, Mexico, the Jonas Brothers, in consultation with Live Nation, have decided to cancel their...

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