More and more singers and bands from Latin America are having their visas revoked.
Last month, a concert in Morgan Hill was canceled because the U.S. State Department yanked the band’s work visas over claims the group was singing about cartels and violence.
Lorenzo de Monteclaro, an icon in musical circles who tours across Latin America and the United States, took to Instagram to say he won’t be appearing in U.S. concerts for the foreseeable future because his visa was revoked.
Earlier this year, Julion Alvarez was the first Latin singer to sell out SoFi Stadium three nights in a row. But he had to cancel his sold-out concert this past Saturday at AT&T Stadium in Texas because his visa was revoked.
"This is not just simply a one-off thing," political science Professor Andres Quintero s