Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom is blaming organized criminals for the shooting death of Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral this past Saturday in Guatemala City.

President Colom made the comment Monday in an interview with a Mexican radio station , and said the attack is under investigation. The Guatemalan leader did not say which criminal group could be involved.

The 74-year-old Cabral was one of Latin America's most famous folk singers. Officials say gunmen fired on the vehicle carrying the singer as he headed to the airport. President Colom also said there are indications that the assailants were actually after Henry Farinas, a Nicaraguan concert promoter who was driving the vehicle carrying Cabral. Farinas was wounded in the shooting.

Cabral became famous in the 1970s as a protest singer. He went into exile in Mexico after Argentina came under military rule in 1976. One of his most well-known songs, “No Soy de Aqui, Ni Soy de Alla,” – “I'm Not From Here Nor There,” – was covered by many other artists, including Spanish singer Julio Iglesias.