{"id":29217,"date":"2025-05-31T17:49:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T17:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/popular-mexican-band-grupo-firme-cancels-u-s-show-saying-trump-administration-suspended-their-visas\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T17:49:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T17:49:47","slug":"popular-mexican-band-grupo-firme-cancels-u-s-show-saying-trump-administration-suspended-their-visas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/popular-mexican-band-grupo-firme-cancels-u-s-show-saying-trump-administration-suspended-their-visas\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Mexican band Grupo Firme cancels U.S. show, saying Trump administration suspended their visas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The popular Mexican regional music band Grupo Firme announced on Friday that it was canceling a performance in a music festival in California over the weekend after the United States government suspended the musicians&#8217; visas.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after the U.S. State Department has revoked visas of a number of Mexican musicians for playing a genre of music that it says glorifies cartel violence. The announcement also came just two days after the\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/musicians-dead-near-us-border-mexico-cartel-members-arrested\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">bodies of five Mexican musicians<\/a><\/span> were found in Reynosa along the Texas border.<\/p>\n<p>Grupo Firme, which has soared to international fame playing Mexican regional music, said in a statement posted on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/grupofirme\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram account<\/a> that the visas of them and their team are currently under &#8220;administrative review by the U.S. Embassy&#8221; and that it would make it &#8220;impossible&#8221; for them to perform in the La Onda Fest to be held in the city of Napa Valley, California on June 1. But the post didn&#8217;t detail what it would mean in the long term for the musical group.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Embassy in Mexico said that visa cases are confidential according to U.S. law and couldn&#8217;t provide more information on the case.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/31\/7ddd5829-65d8-4bfa-a4ca-f667c886ba5c\/thumbnail\/620x413\/5404b0f8fbd53dd15770ee6421e02f26\/ap25151082697540.jpg?v=15603985a4508c8e7bc83d8e4e73c5d0#\" alt=\"Mexico Grupo Firme \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/31\/7ddd5829-65d8-4bfa-a4ca-f667c886ba5c\/thumbnail\/620x413\/5404b0f8fbd53dd15770ee6421e02f26\/ap25151082697540.jpg?v=15603985a4508c8e7bc83d8e4e73c5d0 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/31\/7ddd5829-65d8-4bfa-a4ca-f667c886ba5c\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/877a95fe9bc9c84a5ed51af884b35402\/ap25151082697540.jpg?v=15603985a4508c8e7bc83d8e4e73c5d0 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Members of the Mexican regional band &#8220;Grupo Firme&#8221; perform during a free concert in Mexico City&#8217;s main square, the Zocalo, Sept. 25, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Eduardo Verdugo \/ AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The suspension is just the latest in a series of moves the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has taken targeting Mexican artists in the genre, who in some cases have glorified the leaders of cartels as sort of Robin Hood figures. While the genre of <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/narcocorridos-ban-melee-concert-luis-r-conriquez-mexico\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">&#8220;narco-corridos<\/a><\/span>&#8221; has stirred controversy, much of the music also speaks to the harsh realities facing Mexican youth caught in cartel violence.<\/p>\n<p>Two months ago, the Mexican musical group Los Alegres del Barranco was <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/us-revokes-visas-band-jaliso-cartel-leader-face-concert-mexico\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">sanctioned after it projected images<\/a><\/span> of the leader of the feared Jalisco New Generation Cartel at a concert in the western state of Jalisco.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a firm believer in freedom of expression, but that doesn&#8217;t mean that expression should be free of consequences,&#8221; U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DeputySecState\/status\/1907273733573660813\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said at the time<\/a>. &#8220;The last thing we need is a welcome mat for people who extol criminals and terrorists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Grupo Firme has taken steps in recent months to distance itself from the facet of the musical genre glorifying criminal groups, announcing in April shortly after the controversy that it would not sing such music in concerts.<\/p>\n<h2>Musicians caught in cartel turf wars<\/h2>\n<p>Mexican musicians have previously been targeted by criminal groups that pay them to compose and perform songs that glorify the exploits of their leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Such performers often live in close proximity to their drug lord patrons, and can at times get caught up in cartel turf battles.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the five musicians from the band Grupo Fugitivo were <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/musicians-dead-near-us-border-mexico-cartel-members-arrested\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">found dead<\/a><\/span> after prosecutors said they had been kidnapped. Officials said nine suspects believed to be part of a faction of the\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/gulf-cartel-leader-son-in-law-pleads-guilty-price-fixing-us-mexico-border\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Gulf Cartel<\/a><\/span>, which has strong presence in the city, have been arrested.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/30\/f87319bc-cac7-425d-8970-028c5c7f11b1\/thumbnail\/620x413\/6954e4cbd141c573aa30f8ae01983c23\/2025-05-30t033420z-1362791963-rc2lrea16loj-rtrmadp-3-mexico-violence.jpg?v=15603985a4508c8e7bc83d8e4e73c5d0#\" alt=\"Mexican authorities confirm the deaths of five members of a band in northeastern Mexico \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" 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class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Stringer \/ REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Narcocorridos&#8221; are a controversial sub-genre of music in Mexico, and the songs have caught the attention of President Claudia Sheinbaum, who recently launched a music contest &#8220;for peace and against addictions,&#8221; seeking to counter the popularity of the music among young people in Mexico and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Several regions in the country have banned &#8220;narcocorridos,&#8221; sparking a\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/narcocorridos-ban-melee-concert-luis-r-conriquez-mexico\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">recent riot<\/a><\/span>\u00a0during a concert after a singer refused to perform some of his most popular songs.<\/p>\n<p>In January this year, a small plane was reported to have dropped pamphlets on a northwestern city threatening around 20 music artists and influencers for alleged dealings with a warring faction of the Sinaloa drug cartel. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, armed men kidnapped two members of the musical group &#8220;Los Norte\u00f1os de R\u00edo Bravo,&#8221; whose bodies were later found on the federal highway connecting Reynosa to R\u00edo Bravo, Tamaulipas.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, 17 musicians from the group Kombo Kolombia were executed by alleged cartel members in the northeastern state of Nuevo Leon, allegedly because of links to a rival gang.<\/p>\n<p>Agence France-Presse contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async 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