Mexico offers protection to famed singer after drug cartel death threats

foxnews.com:

Authorities in Mexico are offering state protection to famed regional Mexican singer Natanael Cano and other artists after a drug cartel in northern Mexico publicly threatened them, prosecutors confirmed to The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Photos of a banner threatening the lives of Cano, a singer of corridos, a musical genre often linked to drug cartel violence, and several other artists in the Sonora region circulated on social media over the weekend.

The banner appeared to be signed by "Jalisco Matasalas" a group within a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel known as the "Chapitos," which sowed terror in northern Mexico in recent months in a bloody power struggle.The gang accused the singers of "financially helping" a rival gang known as "Salazares." "This is the last time you will receive a warning, just in time for you to cut the crap.

Mind your own business," the banner read. "If you don't heed this warning, you will be shot." The Sonoran Prosecutor's Office on Tuesday told the AP that the threatening message was found hanging from a school and that they had opened an investigation.