Mexican artists are threatened with life by drug cartel, state offers protection

Authorities in Mexico are offering state protection to the famous Mexican singer Nathanael Cano, and other artists after a drug cartel in northern Mexico has publicly threatened them.

Photographs of a banner with the threat to Cano's life and several other artists in the Sonora region circulated on social networks over the weekend.

The banner was signed by “Jalysco Mataslas”, a group inside the Sinaloa cartel known as Capitos. The gang has accused the singers of having helped financial “a rival gang known as Salazares.

This is the last time you'll get a warning, in time to stop. Mind your own business. If you fail to pay attention to this warning, you will be killed”, written in the baner.

Prosecutors have said they have launched an investigation after the threatening message, the AP reported. /Time