MEXICO CITY (AP) — The favored Mexican regional music band Grupo Firme introduced on Friday that it was canceling a efficiency in a music pageant in California over the weekend after the USA authorities suspended the musicians’ visas.
It comes after the U.S. State Division has revoked visas of quite a few Mexican musicians for enjoying a style of music that it says glorifies cartel violence.
The group, which has soared to worldwide fame enjoying Mexican regional music, mentioned in an announcement posted on its Instagram account that the visas of them and their crew are at the moment below “administrative review by the U.S. Embassy” and that it would make it “impossible” for them to carry out within the La Onda Fest to be held within the metropolis of Napa Valley, California on June 1. However the put up did not element what it might imply in the long run for the musical group.
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico mentioned that visa instances are confidential in response to U.S. regulation and could not present extra info on the case.
The suspension is simply the newest in a sequence of strikes the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has taken concentrating on Mexican artists within the style, who in some instances have glorified the leaders of cartels as form of Robin Hood figures. Whereas the style of “narco-corridos” has stirred controversy, a lot of the music additionally speaks to the cruel realities dealing with Mexican youth caught in cartel violence.
Two months in the past, the Mexican musical group Los Alegres del Barranco was sanctioned after it projected pictures of the chief of the dreaded Jalisco New Technology Cartel at a live performance within the western state of Jalisco.
“I’m a firm believer in freedom of expression, but that doesn’t mean that expression should be free of consequences,” U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau mentioned on the time. “The last thing we need is a welcome mat for people who extol criminals and terrorists.”
However Grupo Firme has taken steps in latest months to distance itself from the aspect of the musical style glorifying legal teams, saying in April shortly after the controversy that it might not sing such music in live shows.
