Colombian Reggaeton stars go missing in Mexico

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has asked his Mexican counterpart, Claudia Sheinbaum, to help locate Colombian singer Bayron Sánchez Salazar, known as B King, who disappeared while on tour in Mexico along with fellow performer Jorge Herrera.

In a post on X, Petro appealed directly to Sheinbaum — whom he referred to as a “friend and companion in struggle” since their time in the now-defunct M-19 guerrilla movement — as well as to Colombia’s diplomatic corps in Mexico. “I ask that the singer Bayron Sánchez and his partner Jorge Herrera be found alive,” he wrote.

Petro said the two artists went missing after a concert in the northern state of Sonora. He suggested that international criminal groups tied to the drug trade could be involved, blaming “the uncontrolled demand for drugs in the United States” and what he called a “decadent society lacking love.”

Local media report that B King, 31, and the former partner of Colombian DJ Marcela Reyes, was last seen on September 16 in Mexico City’s upscale Polanco district, where he was reportedly with Herrera, better known as Regio Clown. Reyes has urged her social media followers to help with the search and appealed to both President Petro and Colombia’s Foreign Ministry to intervene.

“I hope for Mexico’s help in finding alive these beautiful young men who dare to sing of beauty and keep hope in their hearts,” Petro added.