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Bands who play the thumping tuba-and-drums songs of <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/world-regions/location-mexico" target="_blank" rel="noopener">northern Mexico</a> on beaches in the resort city of Mazatlan appear to have emerged victorious this week after noise complaints had threatened to silence them.But anybody who planned to witness the April 8 eclipse in a moment of awed silence will likely be disappointed. Mazatlan, on the Pacific coast, will be first place in North America where the path of totality will be visible.Because of complaints <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/travel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">from foreign tourists</a> who like to observe the resort's sunsets in peace — or with a bit of soft music — a local hotel owner had suggested limiting the time or places where the bands could play. The bands usually wander the beaches, asking for a few dollars per song to play.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-warning-mexico-spring-break-travel-top-threats-facing-americans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">US WARNING ON MEXICO SPRING BREAK TRAVEL, TOP THREATS FACING AMERICANS</a>Their music is hardly conducive to reflection or relaxation — think of a frantic, speed-fueled polka with lots and lots of brass and snare drums, earning the bands the nickname of tamboras, or drums.But after a protest march by the musicians turned into a violent scuffle with police last week, efforts to limit them appear to have been abandoned."The people are very conscious now, and they are defending their rights," President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Monday. "This is how they make a living, and besides, this is a long-standing tradition ... and for that reason they protested and managed to get it reversed.""What isn't good is the violence," López Obrador said. "But the Sinaloa bands, or the musicians of the Sinaloa bands, are completely within their rights to protest, just no violence."While there never appears to have been any city-wide ban, at least one hotel had put up signs prohibiting the bands from offering their <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/travel/general/beach" target="_blank" rel="noopener">services to beachgoers</a>.Videos of the scuffles between musicians and police went viral last week, with some band members hitting police with drum sticks. Drums were turned into weapons.Rubén Rocha, the governor of the northern state of Sinaloa, where Mazatlan is located, wrote in his social media accounts Thursday that "I do not share the idea of prohibiting the musicians of Mazatlan from carrying out their honest dignified work, that allows them to feed their families."The issue came to a head when local hotel operator Ernesto Coppel posted a video urging that the bands be limited as to when or where they could offer to play."They are a disaster on the beaches of Mazatlan. They don't allow people to rest," Coppel said. "I have a lot of complaints from hundreds of American tourists who say to me ‘I won’t return to Mazatlan because of the noise.'"The ideas apparently included designating certain spaces on the beach for musicians, rather than having them wandering up and down the sand, playing to people in beach chairs in front of hotels.Sinaloa, which is home to the drug cartel of the same name, is not exactly known for restraint. An unusually high number of exotic animals like lions and tigers have been seized there, ornate mansion are the norm, and the main tourist attraction in the state capital is a graveyard featuring the lavish tombs of drug traffickers.

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title: Beach bands in Mexico are allowed to continue playing music after complaints
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content: Bands who play the thumping tuba-and-drums songs of <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/world-regions/location-mexico"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">northern Mexico</a> on beaches in the resort city
 of Mazatlan appear to have emerged victorious this week after noise complaints had
 threatened to silence them.But anybody who planned to witness the April 8
 eclipse in a moment of awed silence will likely be disappointed. Mazatlan, on the
 Pacific coast, will be first place in North America where the path of totality will
 be visible.Because of complaints <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/travel"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">from foreign tourists</a> who like to observe the
 resort's sunsets in peace — or with a bit of soft music — a local hotel owner had
 suggested limiting the time or places where the bands could play. The bands usually
 wander the beaches, asking for a few dollars per song to play.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-warning-mexico-spring-break-travel-top-threats-facing-americans"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">US WARNING ON MEXICO SPRING BREAK TRAVEL,
 TOP THREATS FACING AMERICANS</a>Their music is hardly conducive
 to reflection or relaxation — think of a frantic, speed-fueled polka with lots and
 lots of brass and snare drums, earning the bands the nickname of tamboras, or drums.But
 after a protest march by the musicians turned into a violent scuffle with police
 last week, efforts to limit them appear to have been abandoned."The people
 are very conscious now, and they are defending their rights," President Andrés Manuel
 López Obrador said Monday. "This is how they make a living, and besides, this is
 a long-standing tradition ... and for that reason they protested and managed to
 get it reversed.""What isn't good is the violence," López Obrador said. "But
 the Sinaloa bands, or the musicians of the Sinaloa bands, are completely within
 their rights to protest, just no violence."While there never appears to have
 been any city-wide ban, at least one hotel had put up signs prohibiting the bands
 from offering their <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/travel/general/beach"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">services to beachgoers</a>.Videos of the scuffles
 between musicians and police went viral last week, with some band members hitting
 police with drum sticks. Drums were turned into weapons.Rubén Rocha, the
 governor of the northern state of Sinaloa, where Mazatlan is located, wrote in his
 social media accounts Thursday that "I do not share the idea of prohibiting the
 musicians of Mazatlan from carrying out their honest dignified work, that allows
 them to feed their families."The issue came to a head when local hotel operator
 Ernesto Coppel posted a video urging that the bands be limited as to when or where
 they could offer to play."They are a disaster on the beaches of Mazatlan.
 They don't allow people to rest," Coppel said. "I have a lot of complaints from
 hundreds of American tourists who say to me ‘I won’t return to Mazatlan because
 of the noise.'"The ideas apparently included designating certain spaces on
 the beach for musicians, rather than having them wandering up and down the sand,
 playing to people in beach chairs in front of hotels.Sinaloa, which is home
 to the drug cartel of the same name, is not exactly known for restraint. An unusually
 high number of exotic animals like lions and tigers have been seized there, ornate
 mansion are the norm, and the main tourist attraction in the state capital is a
 graveyard featuring the lavish tombs of drug traffickers.
summary: Wandering beach bands playing near tourist hot spots in Mexico emerge victorious
 following dismissed noise complaints from foreign tourists in Mazaltan.
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