Ciudad Victoria, Mexico – Five bodies that seemed to be members of a Mexican regional music The group that had disappeared was found in the northern city of Reynosa, along the Texas border, authorities said Thursday.
The musicians of the Fugitive Group band, which played at parties and local dances in the region, had been reported as missing since Sunday.
The genre they played, Mexican regional music, which encapsulates a wide range of styles, including corridos and cumbia, in recent years has won a center of attention when entering a kind of international musical rebirth. Young artists have mixed the classic genre with trap and, sometimes, pay tribute to drug cartels, often portrayed as Robin Hood figures.
While it was not clear immediately if the group played such songs, other artists have Death threats faced by posterswhile others have had their Visas stripped by the United States Under accusations of the Trump administration that they were glorifying criminal violence.
Few details were divided on where the bodies were found and under what conditions, but the state prosecutors of Tamaulipas had been investigating the case, according to a statement from state security officials. The last time they communicated with their families was Sunday night, when they said they were going to a place where they were hired to play.
After that, nothing more was heard of them. The authorities said the bodies shared characteristics of the artists, although they did not provide more details.
His disappearance caused a uproar in Tamaulipas, an eclipsed state by the poster war. Their families reported that the disappearances requested public support and people took to the streets in protest.
On Wednesday, the protesters blocked the international bridge that connects Reynosa and Pharr, Texas, then went to a local cathedral to pray and make offerings to the disappeared.
Until noon on Thursday, the state prosecutor’s office had not published more details about the case.
Reynosa is a Mexican border city adjacent to the United States and has been plagued by growing violence since 2017 due to internal disputes between groups that compete for drug trafficking control, human smuggling and fuel theft.
This case continues Another that happened in 2018When the armed men kidnapped two members of the musical group “Los Norteños de Río Bravo”, whose bodies were later found on the federal highway that connects Reynosa with Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas.
