Archbishop Jorge Cavazos Arizpe of San Luis Potosí, a city of more than 800,000 residents in Mexico, has asked the local state governor to cancel a concert by rock star Marilyn Manson scheduled for 10 August, stating it could “lead to situations of evil”. Manson, an American rock star who first came to prominence in the 1990s, has been credibly accused of abusing multiple women.

Cavazos told journalists on 15 June during a press conference that he had sent a letter to Governor Ricardo Gallardo Cardona requesting the concert’s cancellation.