8. Life After Death

Ídolo: The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez

Sonoro | Futuro Studios

Music History, Documentary, True Crime, Music, Society & Culture

4.8 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In the last episode of the season, we explore Chalino's legacy 30 years after his death. His music revolutionized the corrido genre and gave Mexican-Americans an icon of their own. But it also forever changed the relationship between the artists who perform narcocorridos and organized crime and, some argue, paved the way for the normalization of violence and the narco-cultura we see in Mexico today. Ultimately, we reflect on how a humble kid from Sinaloa became an international idol. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	episodes of Idelo are presented in both English and Spanish.
0:19.8	This is the English version.
0:21.3	If you want to listen in Spanish,
0:23.0	well,
0:23.2	the feed, and selectio the title in Spanish.
0:26.7	This podcast contains graphic language,
0:29.1	scenes of violence, and drug use
0:30.4	that are not suitable for all audiences.
0:32.7	Discretion is advised.
0:35.6	Episode 8.
0:37.0	Life after death.
0:42.3	I was having mariscoes in Linwood one Thursday in October of 2019 when my phone started to blow up.
0:49.3	It was reporter friends of mine asking me for insight into something big that was happening in
0:54.5	Kuliacan, a day of brazen cartel violence in the middle of Sinaloa's capital that would go
1:00.6	down in infamy as Jueves Negro, Black Thursday, or El Culeacanazo.
1:10.4	Thursday, October 17th, 447 p.m. Rio Dose, a newspaper in Sinaloa, post a video on their
1:17.6	feet. In it, there's this white truck with some guys hanging off the back, heavily armed and draped
1:24.0	and bulletproof vest. One of them has his face covered with a ski mask and holds an AK.
1:30.5	The other man has a black mustache and holds a caliber 50 beretta,
1:34.2	the same one that Stallone used in Rambo.
1:37.3	Sidber Mesa, a journalist in Sinaloa, vividly remembers the day.
1:42.3	It was a normal day like any other. It was a normal, it was a normal day, he said.
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