After 5 musicians found dead near the American border in Mexico, the authorities make more arrests and proxies of weapons

Three suspects in the kidnapping and murder of Mexican musicians in Tamaulipas The state along the Texas border was arrested during a series of raids, authorities said Monday.

The five members of the local fugitive band had been hired for a weekend performance in the city of the Northeast of Reynosa, by the Norist of Reynosa, but arrived to find a vacant lot. His Bodies were found Several days later, after their families reported having received rescue demands.

“An operation on three properties was performed” in Reynosa, said the public security office in a statement, adding that the three suspects had been arrested there.

The researchers said the musicians had been kidnapped on May 25 while leading a private event. Nine alleged cartel members were arrested last week, and the authorities announced another bite on Monday.

Prosecutors said that the nine people arrested last week were believed to be part of a faction of the Gulf posterwhich has a strong presence in the city, but did not indicate whether the three new arrested suspects had the same links.

During the most recent operation, weapons, weapons cartridges, cocaine and methamphetamines were also seized, the ministry added.

Reynosa is a Mexican border city adjacent to the United States and has been plagued by growing violence since 2017 due to internal disputes between groups that compete for drug trafficking control, human smuggling and fuel theft.

The United States Department of State has revoked visas by several Mexican musicians for playing music that, he says, glorifies the violence of the poster. Last week, the popular Mexican Regional Music Band Grupo Firm announced that it was canceling a performance at a Music Festival in California after the United States government. suspended the visas of the musicians.

In April, the United States Department of State revoked the visas of the members Of the Band Los Alegres del Barranco after projecting the face of a drug cartel chief on a large screen during a performance.

Musicians attacked in Mexico

Mexican regional music, which encapsulates a wide range of styles that include rabid And Cumbia, in recent years, has gained a focus of attention, since it has entered a kind of international musical rebirth. Young artists sometimes pay tribute to drug cartels, often portrayed as Robin Hood figures.

It was not clear immediately if fugitive played such songs or if the artists were simply victims of unbridled violence of the poster that has eclipsed the city.

Mexican musicians have been previously attacked by criminal groups that pay them to compose and perform songs that glorify the feats of their leaders.

Such artists often live very close to their drug sponsors, sometimes they can be trapped in gang’s grass battles.

“Narcocorridos” are a controversial subgenre of music in Mexico, and the songs have caught the attention of President Claudia Sheinbaum, who recently launched a music contest “for peace and against addictions”, which seek to counteract the popularity of music among young people in Mexico and the United States.

Several regions in the country have banned “narcocorridos”, causing a Recent disturbances During a concert after a singer refused to perform some of his most popular songs.

In January of this year, it was reported that a small plane had dropped pamphlets in a city in the northwest that threatened about 20 musical artists and influential people for alleged treatment with a faction at war of the Sinaloa drug poster.

In 2018, armed men kidnapped two members of the musical group “Los Norteños de Río Bravo”, whose bodies were later found on the federal highway that connects Reynosa with Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas.

In 2013, 17 musicians from the Kombo Kolombia group were executed by alleged members of the poster in the Northeast state of Nuevo León, supposedly due to the links with a rival gang.

News contributed to this report.

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