Los Alegres del Barranco are accused of glorifying crime and will have to face the court on a weekly basis along with paying ...

"Everyone who tells stories, whether with a pencil or an accordion, has the right to tell them," Luis Alvarado tells ...

They became the first act from the regional Mexican genre to be formally accused by the Jalisco State Prosecutor’s Office of ...

By Natalia Cano Luis Alvarado, spokesperson for Los Alegres del Barranco, is defending the Mexican band’s right to perform narcocorridos freely, without being punished by authorities.

At a recent court appearance, a spokesperson for the band wore a Beatles shirt to make a statement about government ...

Narcocorridos — or drug ballads — are more popular than ever in Mexico, where a generation that came of age during the drug ...

The song is a narcocorrido: a ballad about the drug trafficking underworld. The band that wrote it – Los Alegres del Barranco ...

But the long-standing controversy exploded back into public life this year after a concert in Michoacan state by the band Los ...

Narcocorridos, or drug ballads, extoll drug cartels and their leaders. Corridos have long been used to tell stories in Mexico, sometimes recounting the exploits of bandits and outlaws. Many ...