La narconarrativa después del “juicio del siglo”

Authors

  • Oswaldo Zavala COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND - THE GRADUATE CENTER, CUNY

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-0967/11326

Keywords:

Mexico, narconarrative, national security, “El Chapo”, hegemony

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.

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Published

2020-07-24

How to Cite

Zavala, O. (2020). La narconarrativa después del “juicio del siglo”. Confluenze. Rivista Di Studi Iberoamericani, 12(1), 5–28. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-0967/11326

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 1 (2020): NARCOCULTURAS. La construcción de un imaginario entre discurso hegemónico y nuevas narrativas de la violencia

Section

DOSSIER

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