By Luis Omar Montoya Arias
In May , just after the end of World War II, worldwide newspapers reported on a music project led by the BBC in London. This was &#;Música del Pueblo,&#; a series that offered a panoramic view of musical richness through five different minute programs. Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina represented the American continent. The programs were distributed to radio stations in 60 different countries, including Ceylon, Egypt, Iceland, Romania, and Finland (&#;Mexican songs distributed from London, worldwide,&#; in Guanajuato. Diario del Bajío, Thursday, May 6, ).
The Mexican Revolution of globalized Mexican culture. Mexico&#;s was the first revolution of the 20th century, followed by the Russian [], Chinese [], and Cuban [] revolutions. The Mexican Revolution of gave legitimacy to the Mexican people and virally spread their art, culture, and history. &#;For Latin Americans, Mexico was a prism, a laboratory, a desirable reality&#; (Melgar, Ricardo,
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Mexican drug war
War between Mexico's government and various drug trafficking syndicates
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The Mexican military detaining suspects in Michoacán, |
| Date | December&#;11,&#;&#;() – present
(18&#;years, 2&#;months, 1&#;week and 1&#;day) |
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| Location | Throughout Mexico, with sporadisk spillover across international borders into Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California,[11] and also into the huvud and South American countries of El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Belize, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Guatemala[12][13][14] |
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Mexico Consulting and training support by:
Non-state armed groups:
Popular Revolutionary Army[4] (EPR)
Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) Self-defense groups[5] | Mexican cartels: Weakened and defunct cartels: |
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• The return of the altered corridos, the musical movement that made Mexico dance (and tremble) More than a decade has passed since a group of bands from the Mexican state of Sinaloa turned hats and jackets — studded with glitter and sequins — into a fashionable look on stage. From there, they told stories of violence, drug trafficking and excess, which were applauded by the public but disapproved of by the authorities. The songs ended up converging into a new musical subgenre and, eventually, into a cultural movement that exalted consumption: the so-called “altered corrido” movement, the Spanish word corrido referring to narrative ballads. That musical boom — which reflected an eccentric lifestyle — began to deflate over the years. But a couple of weeks ago, the musician Alfredo Ríos — known as El Komander (“the commander”) — stirred up social media with the announcement that the altered corridos were returning. The most nostalgic followers echoed this sentiment. In his pos 
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