{"id":415462,"date":"2026-05-07T01:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/415462\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T01:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:48:09","slug":"bts-meets-mexican-president-ahead-of-mexico-city-concerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/415462\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS meets Mexican president ahead of Mexico City concerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/85836e48-08f1-4558-b612-13719b7e765c.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1280; width: 100%\" alt=\"Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum and members of K-pop boy band BTS react as they stand on a balcony of the National Palace ahead of a series of concerts on the BTS World Tour 'Arirang' in Mexico City, Mexico, Wednesday (local time). Reuters-Yonhap\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mexico&#8217;s President Claudia Sheinbaum and members of K-pop boy band BTS react as they stand on a balcony of the National Palace ahead of a series of concerts on the BTS World Tour &#8220;Arirang&#8221; in Mexico City, Mexico, Wednesday (local time). Reuters-Yonhap<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">K-pop boy band BTS met Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum at the presidential palace in Mexico City on Wednesday(local time), greeting the public from the palace balcony ahead of the group&#8217;s three-night concert run in the capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Sheinbaum, who confirmed the visit at a regular press briefing earlier in the day, described BTS as a band that &#8220;always carries messages of friendship, peace, and love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The meeting carries added weight given the president&#8217;s longstanding support for the group. In January, she welcomed the confirmation of their Mexico City tour dates, calling it a &#8220;historic moment&#8221; and noting how long younger Mexicans had waited for the shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">BTS will perform at Estadio GNP Seguros on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. All three shows sold out shortly after tickets went on sale.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/831c64db-efbe-4bda-9f7a-f5f0ea542ac4.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1664 \/ 1109; width: 100%\" alt=\"A handout picture released by Mexico's presidency press office shows Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum, fourth from left, with K-pop band BTS at the Palacio Nacional in Mexico City, Wednesday (local time). AFP-Yonhap\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A handout picture released by Mexico&#8217;s presidency press office shows Mexico&#8217;s President Claudia Sheinbaum, fourth from left, with K-pop band BTS at the Palacio Nacional in Mexico City, Wednesday (local time). AFP-Yonhap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mexico&#8217;s President Claudia Sheinbaum and members of K-pop boy band BTS react as they stand on a balcony&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-415462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}