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Announced on: Thursday, Apr. 02, 2026
Works-in-Progress: Jeanie Ruth Candelaria Toscano The Drug Ballads of "El Culiacanazo," Friday, April 3rd at noon, Collaborative Space, ARTS 227 This discussion examines narcocorridos (drug ballads) that emerged on social media following the events of October 17, 2019, in Culiacán, Sinaloa—"El Culiacanazo," when Mexican armed forces failed to capture Ovidio Guzmán, son of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán. Circulating online amid the violence, these corridos seemed to aestheticize a momentary triumph of organized crime over the state. Far from triumphant, these ballads foreground historically excluded borderland communities as agents of critique, challenging a national project structured by moral and economic exclusions. To learn more about the Humanities Center, go to Humanities Center or email director Erin Kelly at ekkelly@csuchico.edu.
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, Department of Languages and Cultures
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