Glorifying drug traffickers is the whole point.
Posted on 04/02/2025 1:40:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said the band, Los Alegres del Barranco, had projected an image of El Mencho onto a screen at a recent concert in Mexico.
El Mencho, whose real name is Nemesio Oseguera Ramos, is the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), one of the most feared transnational drug trafficking gangs.
The CJNG is one of eight criminal groups which the Trump administration recently declared "foreign terrorist organisations" as part of its strategy to "ensure the total elimination" of these groups in the US.
In a post on X, Landau wrote "in the Trump Administration, we take seriously our responsibility over foreigners' access to our country".
He added that "the last thing we need is a welcome mat for people who extol criminals and terrorists".
Los Alegres del Barranco had been scheduled to perform more than a dozen concerts in US states including Oklahoma, Texas, Alabama, Kentucky and California.
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Would be nice if we could do the same for home grown rappers that do the same thing.
Glorifying drug traffickers is the whole point.
What are the repercussions of this to their concert venue?
I suspect they’ll just book somebody else who is equally bad.
Here in the US, we call them rappers. I wouldn’t blame other countries for banning them from their country...
So, El Muncho is the reason why so many Mexicans are illegally living in America. They don’t want him to kill them.
This half-complete article is what is so frustrating about current reporting. It fails to say whether or not they will be immediately deported and whether or not they will be allowed to “re-visit” the USA. We are just to guess about it.
Excellent decision.
Mariachis hit hardest!
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