Violence linked to drug trafficking hit a group of five musicians in Mexicowhose murder at the hands of alleged members of a cartel in a border state with USA It was confirmed by the Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday, May 29.
Nine alleged members of the Gulf cartelwhich three months ago was designated as a “terrorist organization” by the US government of Donald Trumpthey were arrested as alleged responsible for the crime.
The corpses of the members of the Fugitive Musical Group -What runs are listed in Spotify- they were found in a site in the city of Reynosasaid state prosecutor TamaulipasIrving Barrios, at a press conference.
The trail of the artists, between 20 and 40 years of age, was unknown since Sunday When they planned to make a presentation at a bar in the center of Reynosaaccording to their relatives.
Barrios reported that the five men were kidnapped on Sunday night when they headed to the event in a black truck.
Their captors transferred them to the place where they were killed, he added.
In addition to Gulf cartelhe Trump government tagged five other mafias Mexican as “foreign terrorist organizations.”
Artists in the sights
The sister of one of the musicians, who declined to identify for security, told the press that he had received extortion calls after his disappearance. Also denounced the theft of two vehicles of the group.
Family members, together with colleagues from others musical groupsthey held a protest on Wednesday in front of the Mayor’s Office of Reynosa And then they blocked the international bridge that communicates the town with the American city of Phar Texas.
For years, Mexican musicians of the regional gender They have been the target of threats and aggressions of organized crime groups, which are paid for composing and interpreting songs that exalt their leaders, known as “Narcocorridos“
These compositions establish a forced loyalty with the mafias that request and detonate the darkness of the rival cartels.
Last January, Media reported that a plane threw in Culiacán (Northwest) Panflettes with threats to about twenty artists and Influencers For alleged treatment with The Chapitosone of the factions at war for control of the Sinaloa cartel founded by the detainee Joaquín “Chapo” Guzmán.
🚨🔴 The 5 bodies located in Reynosa do belong to members of #Groupofugitiveconfirms the prosecutor of Tamaulipas, Irving Barrios, who details that there are 9 alleged leaders detained from the criminal cell of #Themetros of the Gulf Cartel.pic.twitter.com/jiw2bjbe0s
– Lupitajuarez (@lupitajuarezh) May 29, 2025
The threatened was the singer of Corridos lying pen weightwho admits having written songs commissioned drug traffickers.
The violence in Sinaloa Leave about 1,200 dead since last September.
Years of aggressions
In 2013, in the state of Nuevo León (northeast), 17 musicians from the Kombo Kolombia group were executed by members of the Sinaloa cartelwho would have thus punished their supposed link with a rival band.
In 2008, four members of the Heirs of Sinaloa were killed in Culiacán.
🔴 They assure that they work honestly: relatives of detainees by the case of the fugitive group accuse arbitrary detention and excessive use of force
“They put me to the bathroom, they hit me” and “her wife threatened her death,” they accuse.https://t.co/tk3SyCJS1m
📹 Javier Hernández pic.twitter.com/iygjuwuly
– Milenio (@milenio) May 30, 2025
Other cases were those of the singer Elizalde Valentinealso killed in Reynosa When he left a presentation in 2006, and that of Sergio Gómez, vocalist of the K-Paz de la Sierra group, dejected in Michoacán (west) in 2007.
Between 2006 and 2013, about fifty musicians from Narcocorridos had been finalized in Mexico.
Despite these crimes, the genre maintains great popularity, which promoted the president of the president Claudia Sheinbaum To launch in April a Binational Music Contest for Peace and Against Addictions “, which seeks to counteract its boom among young people from Mexico and USA.
Several regions of the country have prohibited the dissemination of Narcocorridoswhich recently unleashed disturbances during a concert in the state of Mexicoafter a singer refused to interpret some of his most popular numbers.
Others Mexican artists International renowned, like the group The blue angels and rock bands Molotov and Café Tacvbathey have also been the target of the delinquencywith the theft of their equipment and instruments.