![]() ![]() Available in both English and Spanish from Rayo, and imprint of Harper Collins Publishing. Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas. In 1984, Armando was shot and killed in Tijuana, and the story is that Chalino's first corrido was written shortly afterward to preserve his brother's memory. He worked various jobs, both the low-paid, semilegitimate work available to illegal immigrants and small-time border hustlers, smuggling drugs and people across the line in partnership with his brother Armando. With that, he had to leave town, and he moved to Los Angeles to live with an aunt. According to the American reporter San Quiñones, who has interviewed many of Chalino's friends and associates, his legend begins with an incident right out of the Pancho Villa saga: when he was a child, a local tough raped his sister and, at the age of 15, Chalino ran into the rapist at a party, walked up to him without saying a word, and shot him to death. ![]() He was born in the rancho of Las Flechas and raised in Sanalona, a village about 20 miles east of Culiacán. ![]() The facts of Chalino's life are fairly straightforward. ![]()
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