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*Córdova, Nery. The narcoculture: symbology of the transgression, power, and Death.
Glacomello University, Corina and Ovalle, Liliana Paola. "Women in the “Narco-world”. Autonomous University of Sinaloa, 2011.

In the article “La Narcocultura: Simbología de la Transgresión, El Poder y la Muerte.,” Nery Córdova discusses the drug culture by conducting an ethnography. The author writes its research by treating narcoculture as the modern subculture product of the drug trafficking business in Mexico. The author uses interviews and contextual historical factors, narcocorridos to understand the normalization of the drug business and the relationship between culture and transgression. The article analyses the topic through four thematic lenses in
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She first discusses how the media found the narcoculture profitable to negotiate the news and the extravagance of the drug cartels. Therefore, this lead to a sudden increasement in narcocorridos, narconovelas, narcofashion, and more. The media condemns the cartels while at the same time, profit accessories and materials that would give earnings to the media. Furthermore, she discusses the economic patterns lived in Sinaloa, the state from where El Chapo is from. She states that people are living in desperation and assumes that this is the reason why the poor support drug trafficking--a fast way to achieve upper mobility. She also talks about how the government has played a role with its corruption and collaboration with the drug cartels and that the cartels have also provided various benefits to the people. In addition, the article emphasizes how this trend is a fusion between the low-income rural communities and the idea of wealthy. Thus, despite the crime it promotes, they ironically and proudly try to maintain some values. The author argues that these factors have lead to the legitimization of the drug “subculture” as an actual culture based on four factors: the social world, “the cultural objective”, “the production of senses,” and the “reception of culture.” As a result, narcoculture has become a naturalized part of life. Therefore, the author concludes that narcoculture is a phenomenon that will not

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