In the song and a video accompanying it, fat pigs represent politicians who get rich on the backs of the people

Reporting from Mexico City - Los Tigres del Norte, Mexico's superstar norteño band, abruptly canceled its participation Wednesday in a major awards show after it was barred from performing a song critical of the government's campaign against drug cartels.

 

Organizers of the show insisted the band refrain from playing its latest single, "La Granja" ("The Farm")

 

In the song and a video accompanying it, fat pigs represent politicians who get rich on the backs of the people, and a vicious dog with fiery red eyes represents drug trafficking. A zorro, or fox (former President Vicente Fox), releases the dog and there is hell to pay, especially for peasant farmers who get caught in the middle.

Translated into English, the lyrics go:

Today we have, every day

Much insecurity

Because they let the dog loose

And it all came tumbling down . . . .

The band sings that peasant farmers can't plant like they used to, a reference to the destruction of their marijuana and poppy fields, and can't escape the farm because of a huge fence -- the wall built on the U.S. border with Mexico. Finally the dog bites the farmer "even though he didn't agree" with the government's actions, and the farm -- Mexico -- ends up a virtual wasteland.

 

 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexico-narcos29-2009oct29,0,6889517.story