Discourses of narcoculture in Mexico. Consequences of the failed authority of the State.

Abstract

In Mexico, the drug culture is the result of a process of social acceptance of the figure of the drug dealer. This scenario was produced by a gradual deterioration of the legitimacy of the Governmental State that has manifested itself since the last decades of the 20th century and the first of the 21^st. We will show how the figure of the drug dealer became entrenched in the collective imagination, reaching its peak during the so-called « la guerra contra el narco » (war against drugs). In this period, cultural manifestations appeared in response to the context of violence, which ended up consolidating drug culture as an inherent part of society.