Members of the Chilean government and other officials said that although “they do not censor,” they “are uncomfortable” with the artist’s presence in the country.
“Uncomfortable”. The next performance of Featherweight in it Viña del Mar Festival bothers Chili. From the government and other sectors they gave their opinion against of the show of the popular Mexican artist, since they associate him with the narcoculture.
Alarmed by the Advance of the organized crime In the country, Chileans are expressing themselves against the presentation of Featherweightthe Mexican artist who on March 1 cthe music event will fail popular most important in Latin America.
The 24-year-old artist is the exponent best known of the so-called “lying runs”which are modern versions of the traditional “Mexican corridos”which for years have seen the emergence of the subgenre of “narcocorridos”, who sing about drug trafficking leaders and the violence of their cartels.
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The Chilean government communicated its displeasure over the presence of the artist in the country
“The Government does not censor in the least, but certainly it worries him and he doesn’t like it that drug culture is promoted and does everything possible to ensure that this does not happen,” he stated. Carolina Toháminister of Interior and Security.
In October, Peso Pluma had to cancel a show in the Mexican city of Tijuana faced with death threats from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG)which relates him to his enemies of the Sinaloa Cartel.
This Thursday the Mexican singer was the main trend on social networks in Chile, where the discussion focuses on whether the request to cancel the Peso Pluma show is about censorship or not.
Featherweight, stage name of the singer Hassan Emilio Kabande Laijalast year he became the first Mexican to have ranked a dozen songs among the 100 most popular of USAaccording to Billboard magazine.
Why is Peso Pluma associated with “narcoculture”?
The Mexican singer they question he content of his lyrics, where he makes allusions to consumption of drugs and references on some of the drug traffickers more famous.
“To work with Don Iván/ I am from Chapo Guzmán’s people/ Don’t move me because I might get angry/ Let me introduce myself to you, I am El Gavilán,” reads one of the lyrics performed by Peso Pluma, inspired by the “drug kingpin.” also Mexican, which is found prisoner and serving sentence now in USA.
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