La narconarrativa después del “juicio del siglo”

Abstract

The present article examines the contradictions, fantasies and mythifications of the trial against the Mexican trafficker Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, which took place in New York City between Nov. 5, 2018 and Feb. 12, 2019. Drawing from the works of Antonio Gramsci and Ernesto Laclau, I analyze the hegemonic imaginary of the “war against drugs” which legitimized the judicial process and its implications for the fields of cultural production and the “national security” agenda in the current government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. I argue how that imaginary has been originally articulated by U.S. institutions generating a “narconarrative” which mediates in the national comprehension of the phenomenon, which in turn conditions the strategy of pacification set forth by the López Obrador government.