Popular band fined $36,000 for performing songs glorifying Mexican drug cartels

A popular Mexican band has been fined more than $36,000 for performing songs glorifying drug cartels, authorities in the northern city of Chihuahua announced Wednesday.

At a Los Tucanes de Tijuana performance on Saturday, nearly a third of their songs were "narcocorridos" glamorizing drug traffickers, according to city official Pedro Oliva.

The songs "glorified crime or alluded to the perpetrators of illegal acts," Oliva said in a television interview.