Popular band fined $36,000 for glorifying drug cartels
At a Los Tucanes de Tijuana performance, nearly a third of their songs were "narcocorridos" glamorizing drug traffickers, officials said.
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At a Los Tucanes de Tijuana performance, nearly a third of their songs were "narcocorridos" glamorizing drug traffickers, officials said.
The five members of Fugitivo had been hired for a performance, but arrived to find a vacant lot. Their bodies were found several days later.
Officials believe cartels sometimes execute rival drug dealers as well as patients who refuse to join their ranks.
The announcement came just two days after the bodies of five Mexican musicians were found in Reynosa along the Texas border.
Authorities did not say why the musicians from the band Grupo Fugitivo were slain, and did not deny reports by local media that the bodies had been burned.
President Claudia Sheinbaum described the deaths as "deplorable" and expressed solidarity with the victims.
Prosecutors allege Joaquin Guzman Lopez and his brother ran a faction of the cartel that has been identified as a main exporter of fentanyl to the U.S.
Ground-penetrating radar and cadaver dogs were used to locate the bodies in Irapuato in Guanajuato state, officials said.
The DEA had been offering up to $1 million for information leading to the arrest of Jorge Humberto Figueroa, a leader of the infamous Sinaloa cartel.
The ruling is the latest twist in the saga of the former high-flying minister who earned himself the nickname of "supercop" but instead aided and abetted drug traffickers.
The murders of two aides to Mexico City's Mayor Clara Brugada were meticulously planned by experienced gunmen, prosecutors said.
Acapulco was once a playground of the rich and famous. Today the city is engulfed by violence linked to drug cartels.
Tigers, monkeys, jaguars, elephants and lions are among the animals being moved due to the cartel violence eclipsing the northern Mexican city of Culiacan.
The violent crime in Guanajuato is linked to conflict between the Santa Rosa de Lima gang and the Jalisco New Generation cartel, one of the most powerful in Mexico.
César Guzman was dining with two colleagues when gunmen opened fire, according to a retired FBI agent who worked with Guzman.
Valeria Márquez, 23, was likely murdered by a hit man during a livestream on TikTok, Mexican prosecutors said.
Ovidio Guzman Lopez is one of the brothers left running a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel after notorious capo "El Chapo" was imprisoned in the U.S.
Yesenia Lara, the candidate of President Claudia Sheinbaum's Morena party for mayor of Texistepec, was identified by local media as the slain politician.
The Jalisco New Generation cartel allegedly used the ranch to train newly recruited gunmen.
The new sanctions against Jalisco New Generation, including its top members, target the group's fuel theft network.
Jose Luis Pereira, a senior member of the Teocaltiche city government, was attacked at around 5 p.m. at a seafood restaurant in Jalisco, authorities said.
Maria del Carmen Morales was a member of a collective whose discovery of bones and clothing at a suspected cartel training camp shocked Mexico.
The Jalisco New Generation cartel was designated a terrorist organization by U.S. President Donald Trump in February.
The U.S. is offering rewards of up to $8 million for information that could lead to the arrests of the leaders of the La Nueva Familia Michoacana cartel.
Guerrero is one of six out of 32 states that account for almost half of Mexico's homicides, much of them linked to drug trafficking.
