Oficio anthrax buknas de culiacan biography

Shaul Schwarz’s Narco Cultura is a stomach-churning but beautiful chronicle of two men deep in the trenches of the War on Drugs.

Oficio anthrax buknas de culiacan biography

Though they’ve never met, their lives are morbidly intertwined.

Edgar Quintero lives in Los Angeles in a modest home with his wife and children. Quintero and his band, BuKnas de Culiacan, sing narcocorridos, boastful ballads that glorify the violent and criminal feats of Mexican drug traffickers and cartels.

A product of the intensely violent War on Drugs (60,000 dead in Mexico since 2006), narcocorridos’ polka beat gives the songs a traditional and harmless vibe, but their lyrics are vicious. Take these lines from the hit “Sanguinarios del M1” by Movimiento Alterado which champion cartel member Manuel Torres Felix of the Sinaloa Cartel, known for dismembering his victims: With an AK47 and a bazooka behind my head / cross my path and I'll chop your head off / I'm crazy and I like to kill my enemies…We're the best at kidnapping / We are always in a po