Mexico Asks Media, Public to Shun Music Video Depicting Killing of Woman The Associated Press
go to original March 31, 2016

Gerardo Ortiz performs onstage during Telemundo's Latin American Music Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Mexico’s government is urging broadcasters, websites and social media users to avoid distributing a music video by grupero singer Gerardo Ortiz that it says promotes violence against women.

At the center of the controversy is Ortiz’s video “Fuiste Mia,” or “You Were Mine.”

It depicts Ortiz finding his female companion in bed with another man. He shoots the man in the head, ties the woman up and locks her in the trunk of a car. As police close in, he lights the vehicle on fire.

In a statement late Tuesday, the Interior Department urged media outlets and the public “to avoid distributing material like this that trivializes and promotes violence against women.”

The video has had more than 20 million views.

Ortiz’s website had no number listed for his representatives, but local media cited a press statement issued by his managers saying he had no intent to incite any kind of behavior.

The statement said Ortiz’s music “has touched the combative spirit of the people, with different stories that come from people’s daily reality, without ever having been an invitation to any kind of behavior in particular.”

The singer “doesn’t try to do anything other than show a vision of everyday reality,” it said.

Read the rest at The Star

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