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MUNOZ, Celina Daniela. Narcoseries and role relocation: Druglords as current heroes versus corrupted States as villains. Cuicuilco. Rev. cienc. antropol. [online]. 2022, vol.29, n.85, pp.99-136.  Epub 05-Jun-2023. ISSN 2448-8488.

This paper has the purpose to analyze to what extent TV series produced nowadays mostly on digital streaming platforms, and whose main topics focus on drug dealers’ lives (narcoseries), have constituted one of the most ‘fashionable’ trends on TV production lately, both in terms of viewer figures and audiences’ perceptions. Most of them, especially in Mexico, are linked to a group of political and social facts which, undeniably, lead many audiences to perceive a transposition of roles in these productions over the traditional duo villain-hero. Thus, viewers tend to relate the figure of a corrupted State to the villain one, while criminals are identified as heroes. Nonetheless, such perceptions find historical roots in Mexico´s and Latin America’s questionable governmental policies, which have direct effects on the State’s condition of anomie. All these aspects together could lead, not just viewers but actual citizens, to lessen -and ultimately justify- real and patent criminal acts.

Palabras llave : Narcoseries; narcocultura; social imaginary; social representation; apology of crime.