Abstract

Organized crime and drug-related violence are major threats to the Mexican state and civil society. An anthropological study of the narco-propaganda (orchestrated acts of violence, videos, graffiti, signs and banners, blogs, narcocorridos, and control of the mass media) wielded by Mexican drug “cartels” suggests that, rather than just a form of criminal behavior, it is the quasi-ideological expression of criminal organizations that, along with their police, military, and politician allies, control vast territories and have taken on many functions of the state. These organizations should therefore be treated analytically as political entities and their narco-propaganda as a powerful new form of political discourse.El crimen organizado y la violencia causada por el tráfico de drogas constituyen grandes amenazas para la sociedad civil y el estado Mexicano. Un estudio antropológico de la narco-propaganda—que incluye actos de violencia premeditados con el fin de comunicar un mensaje particular, videos, grafiti, carteles y mantas, blogs, narcocorridos, y control de ciertos medios de comunicación—producida por los carteles Mexicanos sugiere que más allá de constituir una forma de comportamiento criminal, ellos son una expresión cuasi-ideológica de las organizaciones criminales que, junto a sus aliados dentro de la policía, el ejército y el gobierno, controlan vastos territorios tomando para sí muchas de las funciones tradicionalmente asociadas con el estado. Por lo tanto estas organizaciones delictivas deberían de ser tratadas analíticamente como entidades políticas y su narco-propaganda como una nueva y poderosa forma de discurso político.

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