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Contrabando Por Amor

This corrido is about a woman who fell in love with a traficante. The traficante convinced the woman that he would love her if he did a job for him. She took a shipment from Guadalupe to Texas. The rinches where waiting for her because someone snitched. Corrido ends with Carmenita dying but it is unknown if she was shot and killed.

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Label Joey

Catalog Number 526-A

Recording Format 45

Composer Melendez, Miguel Angel

Genre Corrido

Subjects contraband, love, complaint, cruel, man, betrayal

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Composer Melendez, Miguel Angel

Recording Format 45

Condition: N-

Subject contraband, love, complaint, cruel, man, betrayal

Label Joey

Catalog Number 526-A

Genre Corrido

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6703 W. Commerce St. San Antonio, Texas 78227

Staff Notes: This corrido is about a woman who fell in love with a traficante. The traficante convinced the woman that he would love her if he did a job for him. She took a shipment from Guadalupe to Texas. The rinches where waiting for her because someone snitched. Corrido ends with Carmenita dying but it is unknown if she was shot and killed.

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