Narcojuniors, the new stars of Mexican corridos

Recently, a corrido titled Soy El Ratón, played by Eduin Caz from Grupo Firme, but originally composed by Código FN. Its title obeys the nickname of Ovidio Guzmán.

Throughout the piece, accompanied only by the accordion and the sixth bass, the band narrated different parts of Ovidio Guzmán's public life, allegedly linked to the operations of the Sinaloa Cartel, founded by his father, Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán Loera.

Such is the case of the so-called Black Thursday, or Culiacanazo, on the day that the Fourth Transformation government succeeded in his capture, but in the face of the threat of unleashing a carnage in Sinaloa, they let him go free to avoid war.

This opened up a new branch of narcocorrido that artists have begun to use, and that is to compose songs dedicated to the children of the greatest capos, who took, take over or will take control of organizations in the face of the fall of their parents.

But very specifically, various stories of women and men known as “The Narco Juniors” have come to light. This nickname is due to their opulent lives of luxury, cars, exotic and illegal animals, helicopters, branded clothing, jewelry, and a long etcetera, often even shown through the social networks.

However, most used to have a low profile within criminal organizations, where they gradually built great empires, a relevance that was of great appeal to music dedicated to telling their lives.

Archivaldo's pleasures is one of the most requested and danced songs of the group Enigma Norteño, who dedicated the northern piece to another of Joaquín Guzmán Loera's sons, of course, Archivaldo Guzmán, where they account for the luxuries he liked to live.

The “King of Cocaine”, as he began to know him, is the second of the four offspring of Chapo, and is singled out by international authorities as one of the largest owners of fentanyl laboratories in Culiacán with Ovidio.

Gerardo Ortiz, performer of the northern band, rose to fame with his song Damaso, a popular narco-race in the industry dedicated to Damaso López Serrano, nicknamed the Mini Lic, son of Damaso López Núñez, known as El Licenciado, financial operator of the Sinaloa Cartel.

According to his appearance before a California court, Lopez Serrano was responsible for organizing the transport of thousands of kilograms of heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine from Mexico to the United States of America.

But Gerardo Ortiz also sang to Serafín Zambada Ortiz “Sera” or “El Flaco” is the youngest of a narco dynasty in Sinaloa: that of the Zambadas, an important part of the Sinaloa Cartel.

The youngest of the dynasty, aged 28, was born and raised in the world of cartels. Ortiz was arrested at the Nogales border crossing, in Arizona, in November 2013, in 2018 he was handed 66 months, but left at 58 for good behavior.

Some details about his life were exposed during the trial that followed him in the United States, where a letter written by him was released in which he stated that he always lived “in a golden cage with useless luxuries”.

Alejandro Villa, singer of the Norteño Banda genre, was killed by a firearm shell in February 2019, backed by Federico Villa himself, his grandfather, and the performer Vicente Fernández.

During his career he dedicated a song to Rubén Oseguera, alias El Junior or el JR, who was captured and indicted by Mexican authorities for crimes such as money laundering, violation of the Federal Firearms and Explosives Act, and bribery.

Without a doubt, Los Tucanes de Tijuana is one of the most informed about the issue of narco juniors. One of his most outstanding songs appeared on the album “El Árbol”, and is dedicated to the son of Mayo Zambada, Vicente Zambada, alias El Vicentillo.

Vicente was sentenced to 15 years in prison in a US prison, after being one of the best known “traitors” of the Sinaloa Cartel, when he handed information about all kinds of operations to the US anti-drug authorities.

Her story of betrayal was published by journalist Anabel Hernández in El Traidor, the secret diary of son del Mayo, locked up at the Metropolitan Correction Center in Chicago.

Calibre 50, the band for many years was headed by Eden Muñoz, was listed as one of the most prolific new northern bands in Mexico, thanks to songs such as El Ingeniero, heir to the power of the Arellano Felix Cartel.

Fernando Sánchez Arellano, the “Engineer” and/or the “Aligner”, was captured in Tijuana, Baja California in 2014, where he led the fearsome Tijuana cartel.

He is presumed to have worked closely with his mother Enedina, the “Narcomami” and participated in a wide range of crimes including drug trafficking, extortion, robbery and kidnapping, and was allegedly the protagonist of a bloody battle after joining Los Zetas.

These are not the only songs that portray their lives, since Los Juniors de Los Tucanes in Tijuana, or Revolución Norteña, Calibre 50, Chuy Alday and Los Sucesores, among many others, have given rise to the children of the great capos in their compositions.

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