During the ongoing Mexican drug war, drug cartelsusepropaganda through media and scare tactics to gain more control of its people and in many cases corrupting the government.
This study focused on the different tactics Mexican drug cartels’ use to proliferate propaganda to Mexican mainstream society. The methods, delivery and outcome were also identified to help the reader better understand this phenomenon.
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· As cartels seek to undermine the sovereignty of the Mexican State, they convey their message of social control to the public through various means, including corpse messaging, or leaving threatening and signatory messages on or around the bodies of their victims.
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· Cartels have usedpropaganda for decades to help them achieve their goals. They use messaging to improve and amplify their image among the local populations, disparage and taunt their enemies, and threaten and intimidate the government at all levels.
· Since the theoretical debates about Narco-Terrorism in Mexico did not leave much space to argue, many studies described publiccartel-related violence as terrorist tactics employed by cartels and avoided classifying cartels as terrorist organizations.
