Popular Band fined with $ 36,000 for interpreting songs glorifying Mexican drug cartels

A popular Mexican band has received a fine of more than $ 36,000 for interpreting songs glorifying drug posters, announced the authorities of the city of Northern Chihuahua on Wednesday.

In a presentation of the Tucanes de Tijuana on Saturday, almost a third of his songs were “Narcocorrido“Drug traffickers glamorizers, according to the city official, Pedro Oliva.

The songs “Glorified Crime or referred to the perpetrators of illegal acts,” said Oliva in a television interview.

The Tucanes were forbidden to act in their hometown Tijuana from 2008 to 2023 for alleged shouts to two drug traffickers during a concert.

Several states from all over the country have imposed subgenre subgenre restrictions on regional music, which is growing rapidly, even beyond the borders of Mexico. In April, the prohibition caused a riot During a concert after a singer refused to perform some of his most popular songs.

Weight pen, who combines runs with rap and hip-hop, was the seventh most transmitted artist in the world in 2024, according to Spotify.

President Claudia Sheinbaum has rejected the idea of ​​prohibiting “narcocorridos”, preferring to launch a musical competition “for peace and against addictions” to counteract the influence of drug culture among young people.

Two months ago, the United States revoked the visas of the Band Los Alegres del Barranco to show Images of a drug trafficker wanted During a concert.

“I firmly believe in freedom of expression, but that does not mean that the expression is free of consequences,” said the Secretary of State of the United States, Christopher Landau, at that time. “The last thing we need is a welcome carpet for people who extol criminals and terrorists.”

At the end of May, members of Grupo Firm He canceled a concert In the United States, saying that their visas were under “administrative review” by the Embassy of the U..S.

Musicians in Mexico are sometimes trapped in the violence of the poster. Last month, the Bodies of five Mexican musicians From the Fugitive Group band, they found themselves in Reynosa along the Texas border. At least nine alleged members of the poster were arrested and then Drugs and weapons were seized In relation to murders.

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.

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