Photo: Julion By Jack Molmud, KRON San Francisco | A music festival in Morgan Hill is now canceled after the headliner Los Alegres Del Barranco had their work visas revoked by the U.S. State Department. The Trump administration says the band’s music praises Mexican cartels.
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The band came under fire because some of their songs talk about the cartel[s]. The Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau posted on X, formerly Twitter, that because of this, the band’s work and tourist visas are revoked.
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Dr. Nathian Shay Rodriguez at San Diego State University specializes in Latin American Culture and Digital Media studies. He says the band is not glorifying cartels but talking about the reality.
“When they sing about Narcos, it’s about warnings,” says Dr. Rodriguez. “It’s lived experiences taken into art. We see this in movies and poems”
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