Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Norteño giant Los Tigres del Norte endorses Kamala Harris in Phoenix concert and rally (Drug Trafficking Music)
Courthouse News ^

Posted on 11/02/2024 8:15:54 PM PDT by TigerClaws

PHOENIX (CN) — On the eve of the last day of in-person early voting in Arizona, Vice President Kamala Harris teamed up with norteño band Los Tigres del Norte to encourage voters to hit the polls.

“We are proud to be here in Arizona supporting Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz” Los Tigres accordion player Jorge Hernandez told the Halloween crowd “Make sure your friends and family have a plan to vote by Nov. 5 so we make our voices heard.”

Harris painted the election as a chance to step forward into a new version of the country.

“It is time for a new generation of leadership in America,” Harris said Thursday afternoon. “And I am ready to offer that leadership as the next president of the United States.”

She addressed the crowd after a 30-minute music set from the featured musicians.

Los Tigres performed for nearly 20,000 people at the Talking Stick Resort Amphitheater in Phoenix on Thursday, playing hit songs like “Somos Más Americanos” and singles from its Grammy-winning album “Gracias!... América... Sin Fronteras,” which translates to “Thank you… America… Without Borders.” They finished their performance chanting “Kamala” as they left the stage.

Los Tigres del Norte is famous for its political messaging regarding social injustices, the immigrant experience and the realities of the Mexican drug trade. The band has been censored both abroad and in its home country for its somewhat controversial topics. The city of Chihuahua fined the band in 2017 for playing a narcocorrido, which the city’s mayor said glorifies drug trafficking.

The state of Chihuahua fined the band in 2012 and temporarily banned it from performing its most well-known song, “La Reina del Sur,” which tells the story of a woman drug dealer in Mexico.

Thursday’s event was part of a series of concerts and rallies across America aiming to mobilize young and nontraditional voters. Harris shared the stage with rock band Mumford and Sons and pop singer Remi Wolf on Wednesday in Madison, Wisconsin.


TOPICS:
KEYWORDS:
Los Tigres del Norte, one of Mexico's best-known bands, was fined in 2017 for playing a narcocorrido: a song glorifying drug trafficking. However, the sanction did little to diminish the band's popularity.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-66372323

1 posted on 11/02/2024 8:15:54 PM PDT by TigerClaws
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: TigerClaws

quote:
A narcocorrido (Spanish - drug ballad) is a subgenre of the Regional Mexican corrido (narrative ballad) genre, from which several other genres have evolved. ... Narcocorrido lyrics refer to particular events and include real dates and places.[3] The lyrics tend to speak approvingly of illegal activities, mainly drug trafficking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcocorrido


2 posted on 11/02/2024 8:17:05 PM PDT by TigerClaws
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TigerClaws

Like Mexico’s version of gangsta rap?


3 posted on 11/02/2024 8:22:27 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: TigerClaws

Oh that’s gonna help. /s


4 posted on 11/02/2024 8:27:54 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TigerClaws

The fact that democrats and Kamala aren’t embarrassed by this speaks volumes.


5 posted on 11/02/2024 8:29:06 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: monkeyshine

Yes, the cartels pay them to write songs and they celebrate the narcos within the culture.

Seems fitting for open borders Kamala to have a group like that at her events — more drug money, more mules, more billions for cartels. Sure they are one of her major donors through the non-traced foreign donations.


6 posted on 11/02/2024 8:29:06 PM PDT by TigerClaws
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: TigerClaws

There was a YUGE group of Latinos for Trump, on Thursday night, at Tucker’s Pres Trump event, in PHX.


7 posted on 11/02/2024 8:30:27 PM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TigerClaws

Saw a billboard, in PHX ....

Drug Dealers for Harris.

LOLOL. It was great.


8 posted on 11/02/2024 8:31:06 PM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: TigerClaws

Wonderful. Harris gets the endorsement from a drug band.


9 posted on 11/02/2024 8:37:35 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“President Trump sells out Madison Square Garden -- Kamala sells out America”)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All

Makes sense to me that the Cartels would want her as pResident.

Although I don’t think I’d want the general public to know it if I was Kamala.

And yet she brags about how she ‘went after the cartels’ as AG.

(the rest of the story is probably that she went after them for a %, not to put them in prison )


10 posted on 11/02/2024 8:42:07 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TigerClaws

Vote Early, Vote OFTEN... right???


11 posted on 11/02/2024 8:52:44 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TigerClaws

Yeah. More fenrenal deaths for Kamala. Yeah amigo sing about that, you lowlife swine.


12 posted on 11/02/2024 9:05:08 PM PDT by BEJ
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TigerClaws

This “Los Tigres del Norte” filth, and all those in the same mold, needs to be hunted down and exterminated with extreme prejudice, just as the IDF is doing with Hamas and Hezbollah. And for the same reason.

The cartels and the Mexican drug trash are cut from the same cloth as the islamonazis. They want to exterminate US from ocean to ocean and establish their new “La Raza Unida” wetback fiefdom.

May the incompetent, evil, lazy, corrupt, drug-addled filth meet their waterloo in the US and be driven back into their pit in Mejico and south. From which they can repent and start over.


13 posted on 11/02/2024 9:38:55 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TigerClaws

Don’t want “new version of the country.”


14 posted on 11/03/2024 3:52:02 AM PST by TimSkalaBim
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TigerClaws

I’m hearing Tren de Aragua has endorsed her as well.


15 posted on 11/03/2024 4:39:55 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TigerClaws

I saw them once, almost accidentally, when they were much less famous in the early ‘90’s. They were a very polished, professional group of men with a wide variety of music.


16 posted on 11/03/2024 6:44:49 AM PST by PUGACHEV
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson