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In a stadium partly designed for the purpose of hosting NFL games, the show shared the symbolism of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show – which was seen as a political statement with a celebration of all the Americas united. <\/p>\n

Yet he has said this world tour won’t include dates in the US, telling i-D magazine, external<\/a> he was worried his fans would be targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.<\/p>\n

While addressing the London crowd almost entirely in Spanish (after asking for permission at the start), he didn’t make any direct political points – instead making more subtle references to the importance of people and places.<\/p>\n

But the tour has been widely interpreted as a promotion of multiculturalism and the preservation of identity. <\/p>\n

It’s a message that resonates with his fans.<\/p>\n

“We are here, we are Latinos, we are proud,” says 19-year-old Grace from Dartford, who is half-Honduran.<\/p>\n

“My culture is getting represented – even if it’s through a Puerto Rican, it felt amazing,” she tells BBC Newsbeat. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a stadium partly designed for the purpose of hosting NFL games, the show shared the symbolism of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-662203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}