First Trump targeted Mexico’s drug cartels. Now it’s the musicians who sing about them

By Max Saltman and Gustavo Valdes, CNN (CNN) — It’s Saturday night at a rooftop bar in downtown Atlanta, and the band Orden Activa is about to launch into a Mexican ballad. What seemed like a shy and reserved audience suddenly transforms as the opening chords of the trotting polka begin. The crowd rises to its feet and sings in Spanish as the dance floor dissolves into a sea of cowboy hats: “I’m the ruler of the roosters Of the Jalisco cartel. I’ve got fighting cock