Mexico City – At a Mexican military base, Captain Eduardo Baron does not pick up a rifle but rather a microphone. Slaves in the shoe to the bot, packing a song where the sounds of the trumpets and the Corb Hadeer were from a group of dozens of soldiers who wore camouflage clothes.
The rhythmic method – known as Corrido – can be recognized for every spirit of the 130 million Latin American nation. But Baron’s words are sharply deviating from those who explode on loudspeakers all over Mexico.
“I still remember the day I joined the army,” he said. “This is a dream that yearns for my soul, and if I will live another life, I will become a soldier again.”
Baron, who is under the name “Eddy Barron”, began to launch music videos and songs on Spotify last year in coordination with the Mexican army. His words glorify the virtues of the army, celebrate the proud fathers and honor the fallen.
They stand in a blatant contradiction with Narco rules are controversialIt is a sub -type that sparked controversy as the famous artists praised the heads of the Cartel, and their perception as rebels against the regime.
In the face of the challenge of addressing the musical style that depicts Cartel’s violence, local governments throughout Mexico Offers were increasingly banned And follow -up criminal investigations of gangs and musicians. The President of Mexico so He pledged to reduce the popularity of Narco Corridos While promoting other less violent musical methods.
But Baron, 33, takes a different approach. Instead of censorship, he wants to build on the momentum with his military names, an effort to raise this type with more social acceptance and recruitment of youth to the army.
He said: “Narco Life is in elegance and makes it really beautiful … but the reality is different.” “We play our role to invite young people to join this positive music movement.”
Baron’s military stories are part of a broader governmental payment headed by Mexican President Claudia Shinbom, who suggested that the government promote the revolutions on “love and fall from love and peace.”
It even announced the government’s Mexican music competition in the northern state Durano shows music This avoids “glorifying violence, drugs and discrimination against women.”
“It will completely change Mexican music,” she said.
But in a long sub -culture for a long time through resistance and putting words on the harsh facts facing the poor, the government’s initiatives about this type have been suspected about official attempts to enhance family friendly accounts.
“I do not think that the use of Corridos as a way to integrate other types of novels is a bad idea,” said Jose Manuel Valencallia, a meeting scientist Tijuana studying this type. “There are a lot of songs that sing peace and love. It is just that that is the one that turns into her songs … because we live in a moment of affected young people.”
Corridos was born in the nineteenth century, and the tools of the classic band and the Ecordis rooted in German and Polish immigration to Mexico. At a time of extensive illiteracy, it was widely used to pass the history of the mouth.
I took stories during the Mexican Revolution, when they used to share the stories of war and glory heroes from the conflict.
This is why Baron says he did not invent military demonstrations, but simply returns them.
He said: “Those of the revolution come from the revolution, and we do the same thing as these soldiers and revolutionaries, even if it is in a different era, but the result is the same.”
This type has evolved over generations, from singing about Tikila smuggling during the era of banning the twenties of the twentieth century in Tequileros Corridos to wrestle with the increasing wave of cartel violence in Mexico with Corridos Narco.
“All major social issues are listed through Corridos,” said Valencallia. “It is a borrowing to talk about what we were living in.”
Baron said that he will play the guitar with his father’s regional band of Mexican music, and writes his own music. He would have attended his guitar to play on publishing operations after joining the army on 20.
In 2021, he said that he began writing his own songs about his time in the army and singing with the FX Military Division, which was named after the type of weapon used by the military. But music has never been completed.
Around 2023, this type exploded when artists such as Bizo Blaoma, Fourza Regevid and Natanil Kano began mixing the classic style with trap music in what is known as Corridos Tumbados. In the same year, Pen Taylor Swift excelled as the most flowing artist on YouTube.
A year later, the Mexican army decided to publish Baron’s music under its artistic name.
Music videos, which recorded tens of thousands of views on YouTube alone, are applied with pictures of heavy weapons, Mexican flag, barbed wire, and Barrón in the Mutaht and enjoy the infrared that was pulled over its military helmet.
It was originally aimed at entertaining the forces and increasing military employment among Mexican youth, and Baron’s songs took a different meaning amid the renewed controversy that came with the Corridos boom.
The music style has always been subjected to romantic criticism of Cartel’s violence, but it has achieved a turning point in recent years.
The Mexican states have carried out a ban, and prominent artists have received death threats, and they often claim that they are a competing cartridge that glorified their leaders in their music. The musicians were forced to cancel the offers due to concerns about potential violence.
The controversy was intensified last week, after facing the higher poster coach, Nemecio Robin “El Mencho” Oseguera It was shown on a large screen Los Alexres Del Barranco is succeeded at a music festival in the northern Jalisco state. The accident, which occurred shortly after the association of the Oceguera Cartel to a farm under investigation as a training camp and a location to get rid of the body in Galisco, was sent shocks throughout Mexico.
The performance was met with a series of criticism. Two Mexican states have announced criminal investigations, concerts were canceled and the Trump administration canceled US visas for the band members.
It was also a stiffness in the Sheinbau accent, which called for an investigation into the concert, adding: “You cannot justify violence or criminal groups.”
Baron, who opposes Corridos, believes that the solution is to continue singing in camouflage in the hope of restoring Mexican music from his childhood from the negative stereotypes that have grown to define.
He said that the army is already planning to release new songs in the coming months.
“Unfortunately, we have attached to this label from Corridos as negative music,” he said. “There is a better approach is to restore this type and take a different way to change the conversation.”
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