ASUNCION NOCHIXTLAN, Mexico _ In front of the charred shell of a bus, a six-member norteno band began to play. Their stage was just a patch of dirt, but the band had a story to tell _ a tale of protest and violence.
They came here because the bus played a role in that story, and in the tradition of the Mexican corrido, or ballad, Grupo Accion Oaxaca recounted what happened here in the crossroads town of Asuncion Nochixtlan. Let me tell you a story, the swaggering singer began.
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Nochixtlan is in mourning, a bad government at fault.
Here I raise my voice ...
Where we are living appears a war zone.
We don't want more dead.
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