Lawmakers Want to Crackdown on Mexican TV Shows that Glamorize Drug Cartels David Agren - The Guardian
go to original November 4, 2016

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Mexican politicians and conservative activists are demanding that television shows about the drugs trade be banned before midnight to spare impressionable young people from exposure to the gratuitous violence and lavish lifestyles of mafia kingpins.

They argue that shows such as Lord of the Skies - which dramatises the life of Juarez cartel founder Amado Carillo Fuentes - and Queen of the South - the story of a fictional female kingpin - glorify crime at a time when the country is increasingly overwhelmed by drug war violence.

In a joint statement this week, the presidents of the radio, TV and cinema commissions of the senate and chamber of deputies said that authorities should not allow television stations to “promote apologies for violence and make narco-trafficking and its activities appear aspirational as a lifestyle”.

Zoe Robledo and Lia Limon accused the so-called narconovelas of weakening Mexico’s social fabric “by promoting false values and aggressive social behaviour, which provides regrettable feedback to organised crime”.

The call for a ban comes as Mexico approaches the 10th anniversary of the launch of a militarized crackdown on organised crime - a campaign that has cost an estimated 150,000 lives, left more than 25,000 missing but failed to impose the rule of law or slow down the drugs trade.

The ban is supported by a campaign group known as In Favour of the Best, which argues that in a country where more people own TV sets than refrigerators, terrestrial TV channels “influence the conduct and the aspirations of millions of Mexicans”.

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