Los Alegres del Barranco, who is charged with crime

The Mexican band Los Alegres del Barranco was charged by the Fiscalía del Estado de Jalalco (public prosecutor's office of Jalalco State) because he supposedly used crimes. The authorities in the Mexican state examine the band after they have planned the pictures of a criminal leader during a concert on March 29 in an auditorium of the University of Guadalajara when performing the song “El del Palque”.

A judge will now determine whether a legal proceedings against the members of the group, their legal representative and the sponsor of their concerts should initiate in a hearing planned for Monday (May 12), which would represent a precedent in regional Mexican music.

“The members of a music group showing pictures that indicate a number of organized crimes during a concert in Zapopan Billboard Español. “Similarly, charges against the manager of the group and the organizer of their concerts were raised.

According to the explanation, the judge imposed the four members of the band, their manager and promoter, precautionary measures, which means that they are not allowed to leave Jalisco. In addition, you have to pay a bond of 1.8 million pesos (approx. 92,000 USD), which is 300,000 pesos per person.

Article 142 of the Jalisco Criminal Code states that the public task of committing a crime or glorification – or another vice – can be punished with up to six months in prison. Experts consulted by Billboard Español Note that this type of punishment is less than four years, it may be delivered outside the prison if the judge allows this.

The group and their representatives decided not to make any statements during a hearing on Tuesday after the declaration. Billboard Español has contacted the band's representatives, but did not receive an answer at the time of publication.

The public prosecutor's public prosecutor confirmed in Jalalco Billboard Español These three open investigation into Los Alegres del Barranco because they supposedly supported crimes. The first corresponds to the investigation against you because it prompted pictures of the head of the Cártel Jalalco Nueva Generación (CJng), Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, and alias “El Mencho”, during their concert on March 29. Landau, in a post on X.

The second examination was opened after the group allegedly projected the texts of the controversial Corrido “El Del Palenque” on May 3 on May 3. The third folder corresponds to another presentation on May 4, in which the group allegedly arose in similar actions in the municipality of Tequila.

The President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, said on Wednesday (May 7th) that “it was the decision of the public prosecutor's office in Jalalco to pursue the members of Los Alegres del Barranco because of allegedly a support for crimes, and repeated that their government was not for the ban on the Narcokokorrid genres.

“My position is that it should not be forbidden, but that other music should be promoted. Instead of banning, it is more important to raise people and young people, to lead and encourage this music to hear this music,” said the Mexican President during her morning press conference.

The controversy around Los Alegres del Barranco's alleged homage to the drug dealer takes place after the debate about how the cartel founded in Jalisco uses the secret ranches to recruit people through fraudulent job offers, as reported by the federal authorities and the media. This is followed by the discovery of the Izaguirre in the municipality of Teuchitlán, where the Guerreros Buscadores collective is supposed to denounce actions and murder in early March.

Ten (out of 32) states in Mexico have implemented several new bans against anesthetic or an expression that uses crimes without being a federal law.