Mexican schools provide drug songs – Feb 21, 2005

Comic book style border crossing instructions weren’t good enough. Now the Mexican government is buying songbooks for the kids praising the glory of running drugs.

Which drug cartel owns Mexico again?

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s school libraries are stocking a book that includes the lyrics of “narcocorridos” — folk songs that glorify drug traffickers — causing a storm of criticism in a country where the drug market and its violence have become part of life in thousands of communities.