Cuatro dimensiones de la violencia del narcotráfico en México: ¿cómo las conciben los perpetradores?

Garcia-Reyes, Karina

Abstract

This paper examines the narratives of thirty-three former drug traffickers and analyses how they portray drug trafficking violence. Using a discourse analysis approach, this study reveals four different meanings attached to this violence: a) drug trafficking violence as a business; b) violence as the ground rules of drug trafficking; c) drug trafficking violence as a source of adrenaline and empowerment, and; d) drug trafficking violence linked to the cult of the Holy Dead. Identifying and understanding each of these dimensions has signifi cant implications for policy design. As this paper shows, each dimension has distinct origins, and serves a different purpose; therefore, each of them requires a different policy-making strategy for their containment and prevention.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Feb 18, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Sep 12, 2022
• Publication Date: Sep 12, 2022
• Deposit Date: Jan 24, 2023
• Journal: Revista CONfines de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales
• Electronic ISSN: 1870-3569
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 16
• Pages: 33-60
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.46530/cf.vi31/cnfns.n31.p33-60
• Keywords: Drug trafficking violence, Mexico, War on drugs, discourse analysis
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10382001
• Publisher URL: https://confines.tec.mx/index.php/confines/article/view/68