Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau announced last week that the U.S. has revoked the visas of the members of the Mexican corrido band Los Alegres del Barranco following a concert where they displayed the image of drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes at their concert in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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Cervantes is the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). He’s known as “El Mencho.”
“I’m a firm believer in freedom of expression, but that doesn’t mean that expression should be free of consequences,” Landau posted on X. “A Mexican band, ‘Los Alegres del Barranco,’ portrayed images glorifying drug kingpin ‘El Mencho’ — head of the grotesquely violent CJNG cartel — at a recent concert in Mexico.”
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