CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — The bodies of five artists, participants of a Mexican regional songs group who had actually gone away, were discovered in the north city of Reynosa along the Texas boundary, authorities said on Thursday.
The artists from the band Grupo Fugitivo, which played at celebrations and regional dances in the region, had actually been reported missing out on given that Sunday.
Tamaulipas state district attorneys, who had actually been investigating their loss, stated the men were kidnapped around 10 p.m. that night while traveling in an SUV en route to a location where they were employed to play.
Their bodies were located on the edges of Reynosa. District attorneys stated nine suspects thought to be component of an intrigue of the Gulf Cartel, which has strong visibility in the city, have actually been detained.
Authorities were not instantly able to claim why the males were killed, and did not reject reports by local media that the bodies had been melted.
The category they played– Mexican regional music, which envelops a wide variety of styles consisting of corridos and cumbia– has in current years acquired a spotlight as it’s entered a type of global music renaissance. Youthful musicians often admire leaders of medication cartels, frequently represented as Robin Hood-type numbers.
It was not immediately clear if the team played such tunes or if the musicians were simply targets of rampant cartel physical violence that has overshadowed the city. But other musicians have encountered fatality threats by cartels, while others have had their visas stripped by the USA under accusations by the Trump administration that they were glorifying criminal violence.
The last time the musicians were learnt through was the evening they were abducted, when they informed relative they got on the way to the event. After that, nothing else was come across them.
Their disappearance triggered an uproar in Tamaulipas, a state long overshadowed by cartel war. Their families reported the loss, gotten in touch with the general public for support and people took to the roads in protest.
On Wednesday, protesters obstructed the global bridge attaching Reynosa and Pharr, Texas, later going to a local cathedral to pray and make offerings to the vanished.
Reynosa is a Mexican border city beside the United States and has been plagued by rising physical violence given that 2017 because of internal disagreements among teams vying for control of medicine trafficking, human contraband and fuel burglary.
This instance complies with one more that occurred in 2018, when armed guys abducted two participants of the musical group “Los Norteños de Río Bravo,” whose bodies were later located on the federal freeway connecting Reynosa to Río Bravo, Tamaulipas.
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