Popular Mexican band takes stand on censorship

The World

The musical group �Los Tigres del Norte� pulled out of a Mexican music awards show after organizers asked them not to perform their latest hit � a song about drug violence, immigration and corruption in Mexico. The World’s William Troop has details.

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