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Common Mexican band Grupo Firme cancels U.S. present, saying Trump administration suspended their visas

Editorial Board Published May 31, 2025
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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 america authorities suspended the musicians’ visas.

It comes after the U.S. State Division has revoked visas of various Mexican musicians for enjoying a style of music that it says glorifies cartel violence. The announcement additionally got here simply two days after the our bodies of 5 Mexican musicians had been present in Reynosa alongside the Texas border.

Grupo Firme, which has soared to worldwide fame taking part in Mexican regional music, mentioned in an announcement posted on its Instagram account that the visas of them and their group are at the moment below “administrative review by the U.S. Embassy” and that it could 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 didn’t element what it could imply in the long run for the musical group.

The U.S. Embassy in Mexico mentioned that visa circumstances are confidential in keeping with U.S. regulation and couldn’t present extra data on the case.

Members of the Mexican regional band “Grupo Firme” carry out throughout a free live performance in Mexico Metropolis’s most important sq., the Zocalo, Sept. 25, 2022.

Eduardo Verdugo / AP

The suspension is simply the most recent in a collection of strikes the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has taken concentrating on Mexican artists within the style, who in some circumstances have glorified the leaders of cartels as type of Robin Hood figures. Whereas the style of “narco-corridos” has stirred controversy, a lot of the music additionally speaks to the tough 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 photographs of the chief of the scary Jalisco New Era 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 current months to distance itself from the side of the musical style glorifying legal teams, saying in April shortly after the controversy that it could not sing such music in live shows.

Musicians caught in cartel turf wars

Mexican musicians have beforehand been focused by legal teams that pay them to compose and carry out songs that glorify the exploits of their leaders.

Such performers usually stay in shut proximity to their drug lord patrons, and may at instances get caught up in cartel turf battles.

On Thursday, the 5 musicians from the band Grupo Fugitivo had been discovered lifeless after prosecutors mentioned they’d been kidnapped. Officers mentioned 9 suspects believed to be a part of a faction of the Gulf Cartel, which has sturdy presence within the metropolis, have been arrested.

Mexican authorities confirm the deaths of five members of a band in northeastern Mexico The automobile belonging to Mexican musical group Grupo Fugitivo is seen exterior the Specialised Unit for the Investigation of Compelled Disappearances, after Mexican authorities confirmed that 5 members of the band had been discovered lifeless, in Reynosa, Mexico Could 29, 2025.

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“Narcocorridos” are a controversial sub-genre of music in Mexico, and the songs have caught the eye of President Claudia Sheinbaum, who just lately launched a music contest “for peace and against addictions,” searching for to counter the recognition of the music amongst younger individuals in Mexico and america.

A number of areas within the nation have banned “narcocorridos,” sparking a current riot throughout a live performance after a singer refused to carry out a few of his hottest songs.

In January this yr, a small airplane was reported to have dropped pamphlets on a northwestern metropolis threatening round 20 music artists and influencers for alleged dealings with a warring faction of the Sinaloa drug cartel.  

In 2018, armed males kidnapped two members of the musical group “Los Norteños de Río Bravo,” whose our bodies had been later discovered on the federal freeway connecting Reynosa to Río Bravo, Tamaulipas.

In 2013, 17 musicians from the group Kombo Kolombia had been executed by alleged cartel members within the northeastern state of Nuevo Leon, allegedly due to hyperlinks to a rival gang.

Agence France-Presse contributed to this report.

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