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La Carga Del Diablo - Beto Quintanilla

La Carga Del Diablo

This corrido calls the Carga del Diablo drugs and contraband and expresses disdain towards them. The protagonist got into selling contraband for the money and was on a shipment run with his two sons from Monterrey to Chicago. The drugs were hidden in the car and when the kids got hungry they ate the drugs and died.

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Label Rocca

Catalog Number R-103-A

Recording Format 45

Composer Martinez, Reynaldo

Genre Corrido

Subjects complaint, drugs, contraband, disdain, money, luxuries, accidental, death

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Performer Beto Quintanilla

Performer Listed on Media Beto Quintanilla

Composer Martinez, Reynaldo

Recording Format 45

Condition: N-

Subject complaint, drugs, contraband, disdain, money, luxuries, accidental, death

Label Rocca

Catalog Number R-103-A

Genre Corrido

Staff Notes: This corrido calls the Carga del Diablo drugs and contraband and expresses disdain towards them. The protagonist got into selling contraband for the money and was on a shipment run with his two sons from Monterrey to Chicago. The drugs were hidden in the car and when the kids got hungry they ate the drugs and died.

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