{"id":3222,"date":"2022-12-15T02:56:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T10:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/15\/mexico-president-asks-bad-bunny-to-perform-free-concert-following-ticketmaster-mix-up\/"},"modified":"2022-12-15T02:56:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T10:56:51","slug":"mexico-president-asks-bad-bunny-to-perform-free-concert-following-ticketmaster-mix-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/15\/mexico-president-asks-bad-bunny-to-perform-free-concert-following-ticketmaster-mix-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico President asks Bad Bunny to perform free concert following Ticketmaster mix up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"primary\">\n<p class=\"standfirst\">Mexico President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador has called for Bad Bunny to give a free concert, after fans were unable to enter a recently sold-out show due to a mix up from Ticketmaster.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>President L\u00f3pez Obrador said that the rapper should play a show in the central Z\u00f3calo plaza in the capital Mexico City, and that the Mexican Government could pay for some of the production costs for the concert.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2022\/dec\/14\/mexico-president-bad-bunny-free-concert-ticketmaster-debacle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian<\/a>, L\u00f3pez Obrador said: \u201cI ask Bad Bunny, I know he is overworked and tired because he works a lot, but I ask him to consider the possibility of coming to\u00a0Mexico, to the Z\u00f3calo. Hopefully he comes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fans were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/2022\/12\/12\/bad-bunny-fans-turned-away-from-concert-due-to-fake-ticket-mix-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unable to enter Estadio Azteca<\/a> for Bad Bunny\u2019s concert last Friday, after Ticketmaster cancelled tickets, citing a large number of fake purchases.<\/p>\n<p>The President added: \u201cIt made us very emotional to see sad young people who couldn\u2019t enter because their tickets were cloned, because they were cheated, some crying. They saved for a long time to be able to buy their tickets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PROFECO, Mexico\u2019s consumer watchdog agency, said that Ticketmaster would have to refund the full cost of tickets purchased via official channels, on top of a 20% compensation fee.<\/p>\n<p>Mexico\u2019s Federal Consumer Attorney Ricardo Sheffield told local press that Ticketmaster Mexico could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/2022\/12\/14\/ticketmaster-mexico-could-face-fines-following-bad-bunny-concert-mix-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">face a fine<\/a> worth a total of up to 10% of the ticketing platform\u2019s earnings in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \n\n<div class=\"tax-cat-tags\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"col-sm-6 tax-cat\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<p class=\"\">Filed under<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"btn\" >Awards<\/button>|<button class=\"btn\" >Ticketing<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"col-sm-6 tax-tags\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<p class=\"\">Tags<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"btn\" >Ticketing<\/button>|<button class=\"btn\" >Stadiums<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n --><\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/2022\/12\/15\/mexico-president-asks-bad-bunny-to-perform-free-concert-following-ticketmaster-mix-up\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Mexico President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador has called for Bad Bunny to give a free concert, after fans were unable to enter a recently sold-out show due to a mix up from Ticketmaster.\u00a0 President L\u00f3pez Obrador said that the rapper should play a show in the central Z\u00f3calo plaza in the capital Mexico City, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3278,3549,364,25,3550],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bad-bunny","category-estadio-azteca","category-live-music","category-mexico","category-ticketmaster-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}