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Remembering Ariel Camacho, the 22-year-old star of Mexico’s narcocorridos

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Ariel Camacho, lead singer of the group Los Plebes del Rancho, was killed in a car accident on Wednesday. Just 22 years old, Camacho was already a big name in the world of narcocorridos, Mexico’s musical odes to drug trafficking culture.

Members of a band record a narcocorrido in downtown Culiacan, Mexico.

Mexico’s ‘narco state’ gets a cultural boost from new, more gory pop ballads

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Men playing in a band carrying weapons in the desert

Drug lords pay this Mexican-American singer to write their ballads

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