Lyrics Reflect Social Issues in Mexico

POLICE CORRUPTION AND DRUGS

“Los Tres de Zacatecas”

sung by Los Tigres del Norte , written by Teodoro Bello

There was a shipment of 300 kilos,

Which the immigration authorities stopped,

And when, soon after, I listened to the news,

They only spoke of 100.

I heard the report because I was a prisoner,

Locked up as an illegal alien;

While the gringos were dividing up the shares,

I was writing the corrido.

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RACISM, PROMPTED BY CALIFORNIA PROPOSITION 187

“La Discriminacion”

sung by Los Nortenos de Ojinaga, written by Jesse Armenta

We will always be the same, even if you become a citizen,

Even if some carry permits and others are already arranged

In the gringo’s eyes we will always be wetbacks.