Featherweight cancels concert after receiving death threats in Mexico

He concert of the Mexican Featherweight The event scheduled for this Friday in Illinois (USA) has reportedly been canceled Death threats against the artist by a drug cartel in Mexico.

The “Narcocorridos” singer was threatened with death last Tuesday at the border with Tijuana (Mexico), allegedly by members of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG), the three “Narcomantas” (plans) in different parts of the city, just a few Kilometers away from the border port of San Ysidro (California).

The banners warned the artist not to perform at the event concert scheduled for October 14th in the Mexican city. The public prosecutor’s office in the Mexican state of Baja California took over the investigation into the threats against the 24-year-old singer.

He concert The Mexican meeting in the city of Rosemont, part of the Chicago, Illinois metropolitan area, a Latino-majority area, has been postponed until October 29th. Those responsible for it concert They said tickets would be accepted for the new date, ABC Television reported.

Featherweightwho is known for praising Mexican drug trafficker Joaquín “el Chapo” Guzmán in his songs, made history last Tuesday by becoming the first Mexican star to perform at the MTV Video Music Awards.

The singer did not comment on the threats.