🍿 2022-04-01 03:39:48 – Paris/France.
The Mexican President, Andrés López Obrador, criticized on Thursday (31.03.2022) the narcosis series broadcast by platforms such as Netflix, very popular in Latin America, considering that the "pink world" they paint hides the tragedy of the consumption of drug.
López Obrador said that, contrary to this fantasy, his government is "openly" tackling the most harmful face of drug trafficking: the death of young people due to the use of synthetic drugs.
“Otherwise, everything is managed in the Netflix series, where we even paint worlds in pink, gangs of (…) drug traffickers, with actors, men, beautiful women, residences, latest model cars , jewelry, designer clothes, power,” he said at his usual press conference.
The left-wing president also criticized the way these productions show the authorities' submission to the mafias.
In its content offer, Netflix has around twenty films, series and documentaries on drug traffickers. Several are among the most "popular" among users such as "The Queen of the South", "The Lord of the Skies" or "The Mafia Dolls".
“This other who hurts very badly is not known, the destruction especially of young people. And we are talking about thousands of deaths. In the United States, it is a serious problem”, questioned the president during the conference in which a progress report was presented on the use and the traffic of drugs in Mexico.
On several occasions, López Obrador has stated that he is not in favor of banning drug series, as lawmakers unsuccessfully demanded, but rather has a critical view.
Mexico has been embroiled in a spiral of violence that has claimed some 340 lives since 000, when a military anti-drug operation was launched. According to the president, 2006% of these homicides are linked to the trafficking of hallucinogens.
In 2017, crime reached an independent producer who was looking for sets for the fourth season of "Narcos". He was shot in a rural area of the state of Mexico.
gs (AFP, The Herald, The Informer)
SOURCE: Reviews News
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