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Book Review: Kindgom Cons

By Anya Ventura

Mexican novelist Yuri Herrera's drug war parable is "its own kind of narcocorrido."

This article is adapted from AQ's print issue on youth in Latin America

The corridos of northern Mexico have been described as musical newspapers, folk histories timed to the lively wheeze of an accordion that celebrate the poor, the forgotten and the outlaws. Within the last 20 years, as the war on drugs accelerated, the subgenre of the narcocorrido has blossomed along the U.S.-Mexico border, exalting drug traffickers as latter day Robin Hoods. It...

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