The Woman Who Killed Tejano Music Icon Selena in 1995 Has Been Denied Parole | By the Associated Press, CNN | The woman convicted of killing Tejano music legend Selena Quintanilla-Perez has been denied parole after spending decades behind bars for fatally shooting the young singer at a Texas motel in 1995, the state’s parole board announced Thursday.
Yolanda Saldívar is serving a life sentence at the Patrick L. O’Daniel prison unit in Gatesville, Texas. A three-member panel of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted to not release her, the Associated Press reported. The panel said her case will be eligible to be reviewed again for parole in 2030.
The singer known to her fans as simply Selena was one of the first Mexican-Americans to make it into the mainstream music scene and was on the verge of crossing over into the English-language pop market when she was killed.
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The Grammys awarded Selena a posthumous lifetime achievement award in 2021.
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US Revokes Visas of Mexican Band After Cartel Leader’s Face was Projected at a Concert
By Megan Janetsky, The AP | MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. State Department revoked the visas of members of a Mexican band after they projected the face of a drug cartel boss onto a large screen during a performance in the western state of Jalisco over the weekend.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau, who was U.S. ambassador to Mexico during the first Trump administration, said late Tuesday on X that the work and tourism visas of members of Los Alegres del Barranco were revoked.
The visa revocations follow widespread outrage in Mexico over the concert as prosecutors in two states have launched investigations into the projected images, and a larger national reckoning over how to address the rise of a popular musical genre criticized for romanticizing drug cartels.
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Major Blow to Regional Mexican Music Scene: Ángel Del Villar Found Guilty of Doing Business with Cartel-Linked Promoter in Landmark Federal Case
By Alicia Civita, Latin Times
Ángel Del Villar, the influential founder and CEO of Del Records, was found guilty in a federal court in Los Angeles after a two-week trial that exposed the murky intersections between the regional Mexican music industry and organized crime.
Música regional mexicana stars Gerardo Ortiz and Eslabón Armado were some of the artist launched by Del Villar and his companies.
Del Villar and his entertainment company, Del Entertainment, were convicted of conspiring to engage in financial transactions with a specially designated narcotics trafficker—violating the U.S. Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act, commonly known as the Kingpin Act.
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Photo: Selena Quintanilla-Perez | From her Facebook page
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