Milenio reports that Melissa Plancarte, the banda and grupera singer who calls herself “the princess of banda”, has released a video responding to accusations from members of citizen militias in the Mexican state of Michoacán, who claim that she is the daughter of Enrique Plancarte Solís, one of seven Knights Templar cartel leaders sought by Mexican federal forces. The Instagram video, which has since been removed from the singer’s account, amount to little more than a thumb of the nose: images of the singer flash as the song “Me vale todo” (“It’s all good”) by Mana plays.
The singer has not directly addressed the statements by militia members, who on a Twitter account used to publicize information from the militias in Michoacán had earlier suggested that tour buses allegedly belonging to the singer and abandoned ought to be burned. But according to Milenio, in the text beneath the video clip, she added, “Thanks to my true friends! Got to give importance to things depending on who they’re coming from. Those who I don’t even actually know, let them keep giving me publicity!...people talk too much”.
Other photos from her Instagram account would seem to refer to the Knights Templar cartel of which Enrique Plancarte Solís is a leader, including several photos in which she appears clad in a costume bearing an emblem of the Knights Templar order from which the cartel takes its name. Mexican federal forces have arrested some 38 presumed members of the drug gang – including Jesús Vázquez Macías, one of the men whom citizen militias name as a top leader – since taking over responsibility for public security in the state last week.
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