The book “Cien Corridos” (100 stories), which includes stories that glorify drug culture, has been purchased for inclusion in several thousand school libraries in Mexico. Not surprisingly, anti-drug activists are outraged. The book was one of 13,000 title submitted to committees to evaluate.
The books were vetted by three non-governmental civic groups at the national level and then were evaluated by committees of parents, teachers and local officials in Mexico’s 31 states and the capital.
All but one of those states — whose committees had access to the full text — picked “100 Corridos” as a top choice for local libraries. The other state listed it as a second choice. None rejected it.
The rest of the story here at CNN.com.
Here’s a piece on corrido censorship, written by Elijah Wald, author of the book Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs,
Guns, and Guerrillas.
Psychological exam
Okay, who reads the “war-on-all-fronts dept.”
and sees “War on Drugs” and who sees “War on Censorship”?
Why don’t Mexicans read books?
Coincidentally, I was going to submit this story from from the Christian Science Monitor:
Maybe if they had better school libraries, Mexico would have a better publishing industry. Or vice versa.
Re:Psychological exam
I see “War on all Liberties and Freedoms”. How I live my life is nobody’s business but mine as long as I do not materially intrude into the lives of others.