Narco Messages, Insecurity and violence: Heuristic Analysis about Mexican Reality
Keywords:
Organized crime, narco messages, approaches by the media, violence, and insecurity.
Abstract
The increase in rates of violence and crimes related to organized crime in Mexico has caused the death of more than 60 000 citizens between the years 2006-2012. The increase in crime and homicide multiplication performed by the various mafias throughout the country brought changes in the form and manner through which diffuses and organizes the information issued by the press. In the Mexican reality, the “narco messages” today represent a form through which organized crime reports and instills panic among the population at patenting their power and territorial projects, slander and threatens the state, sovereign Constituted and, incidentally, terrifies opposing groups with texts written by them and legacies of dozens of bodies of men and women killed. This paper analyzes the news about public safety issues in major newspapers in the state of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, among which , the “narco – messages” are part of themDownloads
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Published
2014-02-03
How to Cite
Cerda Pérez P. L., Alvarado Pérez J. G. J. y Cerda Pérez M. E. (2014). Narco Messages, Insecurity and violence: Heuristic Analysis about Mexican Reality. Historia y Comunicación Social, 18, 839-853. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_HICS.2013.v18.44286
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