PICO RIVERA, CA - APRIL 9, 2010: Club-goer checks his nose in the bathroom at El Rodeo Night Club, one of the many big Narco Corrido clubs mushrooming all over LA, and up and down the west coast. The cross-over music scene and culture is generating hybrid fashion trends and lifestyle ties between the Sinaloa mainstream, in Mexico and the Mexican-American mainstream culture in LA. "It's a social movement of people who came from nothing and dream of a chance out", says Joel Vazquez a manger of Narco Corrido Talent working with Twins Enterprise. " It's a lot like Hip Hop or Gangster Rap except it's Mexican Culture not Black". (Photo by Shaul Schwarz Reportage by Getty Images)

Culiacan, dans l’État du Sinaloa, Mexique, 5 juillet 2009. Construction de tombes monumentales au cimetière Jardines del Humaya. Parce que les assassinats sont fréquents dans cette guerre de la drogue, la construction de sépultures de narcos est devenue une véritable industrie. Érigés en commémoration des victimes de cette guerre, les mausolées narcos rivalisent de richesse. Sinaloa, Culiacan, July 5, 2009. Contract builders working on monumental graves in Jardines de Humaya contemplate the constantly changing skyline of the cemetery. With drug war murders in the city last year, narco graves are big business. Narco luxury is expressed as domed mausoleums erected to commemorate drug war victims. © Shaul Schwarz / Reportage by Getty Images

SINALOA, CULIACAN - JULY 06, 2009:A prisoner kisses his wife goodbye as their young girl cries before masked security police transfer the new inmate in to his cell in the prison of Culiacan, Sinaloa July 06, 2003. The Culiacan prison is notorious for it's outbreaks of violence and riots. Last year a prison guard was assassinated in the parking lot in front of the prison. Security forces most often stay outside just along the perimeter of the prison quarters and do not go in to the living quarters themselves. Weed, other drugs and cell phones along with statues of saints are common to be found inside this typical Mexican jail. It is very common to find devotes of Santa Muerte, Saint Juda Thadeos, and Mal Verde among the many heavily tattooed inmates serving time in the prison. The three saints with ties to the criminal world have a regular presence in prisons throughout Mexico. (Photo by Shaul Schwarz Reportage by Getty Images for National Geographic)

TIJUANA, MEXICO: MARCH 12, 2009: State police officers stand amid marijuana plants found in a greenhouse at a ranch in Tecate, Mexico on March 12, 2009. According to Baja CAlifornia State Police, over 3800 plants of marijuana were found in the ranch during the bust. The Obama administration is challenged to address Mexico's escalating war with drug cartels near the shared border.

TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MX - APRIL 14, 2010: Actors, during filming, on the film set of Baja Films Production "The Seagulls Don't Fly Alone." Oscar, Lopez 23 from San Diego, was born into the Tijuana-based family film business, Baja Films. In 2005 the company almost went bankrupt when Oscar convinced his father to try and make a Narco films, rather then another Òold schoolÓ Mexican soap operas. Today the company is doing better than ever and is the largest player in an industry that produces 80 Narco films a year. (Photo by Shaul Schwarz Reportage by Getty Images)

JUAREZ, MEXICO: DECEMBER, 20 2008 - Open casket of murdered Police Officer at his funeral. The border city of Ju‡rez (population: 1.5 million) is a slaughterhouse ruled by drug lords where the death toll for 2008 is 1,600. (Photo by Shaul Schwarz Reportage/Getty)

JUAREZ, MEXICO: AUGUST 6, 2009 - Women puts flour to soak up blood on the pavement, where a young man was murdered August 6, 2009, Ciudad Juarez. The violence generated by the war of the drug cartels for control of drug routes translated into some 6,000 killings in 2008. More than 1,600 of them occurred in Juarez, three times more than the most murderous city in the United States. As of July 14, 2009, the body count in Juarez surpassed 1000, which came 2 months earlier then in 2008. There have been 90 Murders in the first two weeks of August alone. (Photo by Shaul Schwarz Reportage/Getty)