The corpses of five musiciansmembers of a band to Mexico They had disappeared, found themselves in the city of Renosa, north of the country, on the border with Texas, according to authorities on Thursday (29.05.2025).
The musicians were members of the music band Fugitive groupwhich he was playing at celebrations and local dances in the area, and were declared missing on Sunday.
Tamulipas state prosecutors, who were investigating their disappearance, reported that men They were abducted around 10pm on the same day, while traveling with SUVs to the place where they were hired to play. Their bodies were found on the outskirts of Reinosa. According to prosecutors, they have been arrested nine suspicious allegedly belonging to the offshoot of Vaginal cartel, which has a strong presence in the city.
The Gulf Cartel is one of Latin America’s eight gangs – including six Mexican – recorded in February by US President Donald Trump’s government on the black list of foreign “terrorist organizations”.
Authorities were unable to immediately identify the motivation of murder of the musicians, while not disagreeing with information from local media that The carcasses had been burned.
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Musicians in Mexico often become the goals of threats of criminal organizations. Some of them are paid to compose and interpret songs that praise cartels, the notorious Narcocorridos.
It was not immediately clear whether the Grupe Fugitivo band was playing such songs or if the musicians were just another victim of uncontrolled violence of cartels that has flooded Mexico.
However, other artists in the past have been threatened by cartel death, while some have seen their visas recall from the US, with the Trump government accusing them of praising criminal violence.
The last time the musicians were heard was on the night of their abduction when they informed their families that they were on the way to the appearance. Since then, their traces have been lost.
Their disappearance has caused disruption to the state of Tamulipa, an area that has been plagued by the cartel war for years. Their families said the disappearance, appealed to the public for help, and a large number of people took to the streets to protest.
This case comes to be added to similar incident of 2018when gunmen kidnapped two members of the Los Norteños de Río Bravo music band, who were later found dead on the federal highway connecting Rena with Rio Bravo, in Tamulip.
Information from AP