Representations of narcoculture in NaRcos: Mexico

Abstract

The paper shows a content analysis of the representations in the television series Narcos: Mexico, a documentary drama that exposes the origin of current drug trafficking. Three major representations were identified: drug trafficking as an illegal enterprise, struggles for power and wealth, and the overlap of life and death. We conclude that the producers try to expose the complicity of the government in the increase of organized crime in Mexico and justify a greater interference of the US government in national policies of drug trafficking. Furthermore, they use dramatization to show these themes through fiction and get audiences.