Last Monday, June 2, three people were arrested in the city of ReynosaTamaulipas, located in northern Mexico, for being the main suspects of the death of five members of the Fugitive groupa m bandMexican regional usic which was characterized by the use of wind and percussion instruments in their concerts.
According to the State Prosecutor’s Office, the members of the Musical Group were kidnapped Last Sunday, May 25 while they were going to a private concert in a van. The musicians were subsequently killed and their bodies were found during the morning of the Thursday, May 29 In the colony Achilles Serdán.
Mexican authorities quickly pointed to the Gulf cartel as the entity responsible for this crime, taking into consideration that the criminal group was designated as an “organization terrorist Foreign ”by the US State Department. In January, after the arrival of the president Donald Trump To the White House.
The Gulf Cartel operates in Tamaulipas And, for that reason, it is speculated that this would not be The first case in which a Mexican band is affected by violence of the racketeering In the American nation, because, in 2014, 17 musicians were killed by the Sinaloa cartel as punishment for linking with their rivals.
Why do the posters chase the bands?
A day after the disappearance of the members of the fugitive group, Julio Eusebio Labra, The main vocalist of The Sierra Conquerorsa regional band of Mexican runs, was also killed after performing at a social event in the state of Morelos. However, there are much better known cases in Mexico.
In November 2006, Valentín Elizalde, Known as the golden rooster, he was a Mexican singer who specialized in the genre of Sinaloense band And he was killed in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, when leaving a presentation. Also, in 2007, the vocalist of the group K-Paz de la Sierra, Sergio Gómez, was killed in the state of Michoacán.
According to the Attorney General of the Republic of Mexico, between 2006 and 2015, More than fifty musicians from Mexican Corridos They were victims of some organized group, since “the cartels pay the bands to compose and interpret Narcocorridos About them ”, which creates a kind of loyalty With those organizations.
Narcocorridos, also known as “drug ballads”, are a subgenre of the Mexican regional corrido that tells stories about the drug traffickingorganized crime and the life of drug traffickers. Given this situation, when writing a song about some leaderthe bands practically become “exclusive“Of that cartel.
In February, various Mexican media reported that a plane threw in the city of CuliacánSinaloa, a series of pamphlets with threats to more than twenty artists and influencers for “agreements” with Los Chapitos, one of the cells fighting for control of Sinaloa cartelfounded by drug trafficker Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
Among the threatened was the Mexican singer and composer Pen weight, who specializes in the genre of Corridos lying and admitted having written some songs commissioned by drug traffickers, so several regions have forbidden The dissemination of narcocorridos, which has unleashed disturbances in some states.