[Podcast in Spanish] Maribel G. Crespo, Asher Liss, and Carolina Pavlik offer critical insights into “La guerra en las palabras” by Mexican scholar Oswaldo Zavala

“It is an intellectual account of the hegemony that operated as launching pad for “the war against the cartels”—first on a symbolic level, and afterwards as an ongoing campaign against organized violence.
After researching official documents, news reports, academic studies, and cultural productions about drug trafficking, Oswaldo Zavala reviews the story arch of the language in which a war tale is inscribed, with interchangeable characters in variable places that make up the illusion about narco in our contemporary society, giving special attention to cultural products about the drug trade in general.” (Penguin Random House)