Narcocorrido, the sound of Los Angeles

The Mexican-American drug ballads are now a massive industry, with sales that would take them into official top 10s. But these songs laud murderers, drug dealers and smugglersThe Almeida Swap Meet is a sprawling indoor market in the south of Los Angeles, where everyone speaks Spanish and you can buy almost anything. There are stalls selling Mexican food, cowboy hats, car parts, and T-shirts adorned with pictures of Jesús Malverde, the bandit who has become the patron saint of Mexico's drug smug...

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