The unfortunate circumstances described in the accounts of cross boarder living is reminiscent of many trade ports and even our own city Vancouver! The article “A Narco without a Corrido Doesn’t Exist”, explains the various ways that drug trafficking is embedded in the fabric of the culture today in Latin America. The article then begins to explain how censorship and the ways narco lifestyles are depicted in various media (songs, archetypes, marketing, film) is on the said of the narco. And, how this may have a deeper meaning psychologically for the people involved in this fantasy and depiction. Somehow by creating this rose coloured glasses version of present day reality; and making it digestible or even enjoyable is the goal of this expression. The backlash against this is in the other demographic that bares the brunt of this narco activity (cops, government officials, US government.) The idea was that by having this violent music and imagery it would encourage more violence. However, Mexico and other urban centres close to boarders (Vancouver, Detroit, New York) have always since trade and cross boarder dynamics has come to be; have been in some way impacted and exposed to violence related to drug trafficking or gangsterism. So, to suggest that the presence of this music would inhibit anymore or any less violence is irrelevant and perpetuating censorship. In conclusion, my question is how is a people so deeply entrenched in poverty and war supposed to think otherwise about narco culture when it is the very thing that is keeping food and roof over their head? And, possibly a generational archetype associated with even earlier narratives about being a bandit and brave. The funny nuances of a culture in modernity is not always as it appears and even as the person it is translated too in the present moment may have adapted certain ideologies out of context that got translated and transformed overtime as the circumstances changed. Archetypes change and adapt as needed and as we understand that narrative to be. Also, as the little girl stated she enjoyed the song about the female narco, speaking proudly about her body, but did not in fact want to be a narco. This speaks to the deeper underlying mission of a lot of these glory anthems each culture has to insight courage. And, if the courage a mass population needs is the gumption to sell drugs across boarders thats what the song is going to promote. I beg the question why be mad at the song that is created in service of a populous forced into drug trafficking and other underground professions; when you should be asking what made it so these people had to make a song about this ? Where are these ideas coming from and from which people? And, why doesn’t anyone care about the welfare and livelihood of whole zip codes and generations of people impacted by narcos and drug trafficking.