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Chicago mayoral candidate Jesus "Chuy" Garcia and his wife, Evelyn, arrive at a restaurant for lunch on February 24, 2015, the day of the Chicago Democratic primary.

Chicago’s mayoral challenger gets the hero treatment in a Mexican ballad

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A corrido is a Mexican ballad that lays out an epic tale of a hero — or antihero. But while many are written about drug traffickers and cartel kings, a Mexican American mayoral candidate in Chicago recently got a corrido of his own.

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

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The World

An opera tries to explore and debunk a popular Mexican border myth

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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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