The mystery of the singer that Ovidio Guzmán ordered assassinated (and which interpreters have died at the hands of the drug trafficker in Mexico)

After the State Department of U.S will publish the posters of “Wanted” of the children of Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman and a new executive order from Washington, offering $ 5 million for the arrest of each of four scions of the jailed leader of the Sinaloa cartel, as part of its strategy against international drug trafficking actors, a couple of details were released. about one of them.

For example, it is mentioned that Ovidio Guzman Lopez “He has ordered the murders of informants, a drug trafficker and a popular Mexican singer who had refused to sing at his wedding.”

The authorities of U.S They did not disclose if the singer they refer to died, or his identity or the date of the wedding of Ovidio Guzman. However, several famous people are known to have been killed in Mexico allegedly by drug traffickers.

The murder of Valentín Elizalde

For example, one of the most notorious cases is the crime of the Mexican regional singer Valentine Elizalde.

The call “Golden rooster” he was enjoying the best moment of his career. On November 25, 2006, Valentin Elizalde he was assassinated in his truck at the end of a presentation in Reynosa, Tamaulipas.

The singer’s career was at the peak of popularity, when 70 high caliber bullets extinguished his way to fame. Along with the Vale, the driver and his representative also died.

Regarding the death of Valentín Elizalde, it has always been said that it was at the hands of drug trafficking, but the version was never confirmed.

Jenni Rivera and the Belrán Leyva

On December 9, 2012, the Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera He died in a plane crash on his way to Toluca.

According to official reports, the plane hit a hill in the Sierra de Galeana, a wooded area south of Monterrey, Nuevo León, from where the Lear Jet aircraft manufactured in 1969 took off.

At that time, Jenni was a judge in “La Voz México” and the news shocked her fans, but also there were versions that the accident was at the hands of drug trafficking, because ‘La Barbie’ and other bosses hired the singer Jenni Rivera to liven up some of their parties, according to Gabriel Vázquez, who was a representative of “The diva of the band”.

Sergio Vega, “El Shaka”

Sergio Vega, known as “El Shaka”, started to be popular in Mexico with the group “The Kings of the North”. The singer had songs from the so-called “narcocorridos”, the songs of drug traffickers.

“El Shaka” was assassinated on June 26, 2010 by hitmen who shot him on several occasions while driving on the Mexico 15 highway, almost reaching the San Miguel toll booth in Los Mochis, Sinaloa.

One day before, Sergio Vega told the press that he would increase security in his presentations, but he denied that there had been an attack.

Sergio Gómez, vocalist of K-Paz de la Sierra

Another of the murders of singers attributed to drug traffickers was that of Sergio Gómez, vocalist of K-Paz de la Sierra.

The group, which sang “Duranguense” style, was fashionable for a couple of years and toured the United States and Mexico. On one of the tours in which K-Paz went to Michoacán, Sergio Gómez and two other people were kidnapped on their way to Puerto Vallarta.

The two people who were with the singer were released, but on December 3, 2007 at noon, Sergio Gómez’s body was found northeast of Morelia, Michoacán.

Some theories point to The Michoacan Family, since its member Nazario Moreno González He had threatened the group for having appeared on a show by Los Zetas, a rival criminal group.

Another version says that it was because of a woman with whom Serious Gomez He had a relationship and for that reason, members of the cartel burned the musician’s genitals.

El Pirulí, Víctor Yturbe

But perhaps the first crime of a singer at the hands of drug trafficking was the Victor Yturbe, El Pirulí, that went unpunished and without clarification.

At the zenith of her singing career, At midnight on Sunday, November 29, 1987, the singer Víctor Yturbe, El Pirulí, was murdered at the doors of his residence by three people, who surprisingly shot him at point-blank range.

The crime committed against the interpreter of “Verónica” went unpunished and without clarification, and was considered by the police as a consequence of alleged links with drug trafficking.

The official versions released by the investigation indicated that that day the singer was at his residence in the municipality of Atizapán de Zaragoza, State of Mexico, resting and watching television and upon hearing a knock on the door, he rushed to open it. He knew that his daughter Lucy had gone out without her keys.

The interpreter saw three individuals, who without saying a word shot him at point-blank range.

The lollipop he was accompanied by his wife, who slept in his bedroom; his son, for his part, was studying in his bedroom. Both, hearing the detonations, rushed down to the room, where they found the singer bleeding on an armchair.

The Attorney General’s Office followed three clues about the motive for the crime: the first, that Victor had romantic relationships with the wife of a drug trafficker. The second track focused on an alleged millionaire debt for the acquisition of large tracts of land in Puerto Vallarta. The third, his alleged ties and debts with drug trafficking.

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