Featherweight cancels tour of Mexico and US after being threatened

Featherweight cancels tour of Mexico and US after being threatened by Mexican drug traffickers

The Mexican singer, Featherweight, has become a sensation in regional Mexican music and his fame has spread throughout the Mexican community in the United States with his corridos tumbados. Their music is about criminal gangs and the famous drug culture that has spread across much of Mexico for decades.

However, it seems that his music and his personality have caused discomfort in some criminal cells in Mexico and this is hindering his career to the extent that this Saturday the team of PP reported that he would interrupt his tour of border towns USA until October, after banners appeared threatening the singer if he showed up in town Tijuana last September 12th.

The group is apparently upset with the singer Guadalajara Mexicois one of the most dangerous in Mexico Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). That day, three banners appeared, presumably signed by this group, prohibiting him from appearing in that city on September 14 as planned.

The response from the authorities Tijuana was unlucky and then the team Hassan Emilio Kabande Laija decided to take measures to protect his singer.

The unfortunate news from the mayor of Tijuana about the threats against PP

When they found out about the threat blankets, the Mayor of Tijuana, Montserrat Caballero, He considered them “normal” because the PP made an “excuse for crime” in their music and thereby “insulted” criminals.

“We know that singers like the young man Peso Pluma advocate crime. So there are certain groups that are upset and unfortunately the ones who suffer the consequences are the citizens who want to attend their concert and take a risk,” he said.

Given the lack of conditions, the singer’s team reported that from this concert until November 4th he would continue his performance at the … Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Likewise in Chicago His concert was postponed until October Rosemont Theater. It was originally scheduled to be unveiled this Friday.

Why did the CJNG threaten the featherweight division?

The narcomantas found in the city of Tijuana ask the singer not to perform there because it would be “disrespectful”.

“This is for you, featherweight. Don’t show up on October 14th because it will be your last show because of disrespect and loose tongues. You show up and we will break your mother,” the blankets emphasize.

So far, one person has been arrested because of these threats.

While the singer dismissed the seriousness of the threats against him and assured that he had a more important mission during the handover of the MTV VMAS 2023: “I say that we are here for a better reason, because it is the music that brought us here.”