Latin American Perspectives discusses and debates the politicalĮconomies of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas. Un estudio de caso de los narcomedios (narcomensajes, narcovideos y narcomantas) en Yucatán en 2008, así como una exploración de los debates públicos contemporáneos relativos a éstos a nivel nacional en los años subsiguientes, ofrece algunas alternativas de lectura: en el contexto del surgimiento de los nuevos medios en relación a las redes de relaciones entre los medios nuevos y "viejos" como intervenciones en luchas políticas integradas regionalmente y enmarcadas a nivel nacional y como un punto focal de luchas sobre la censura de los medios de comunicación, la esfera pública y contrapúblicos en el México contemporáneo. Mayoría de los comentaristas interpreta los mensajes dejados por narcotraficantes, a menudo acompañados por restos humanos brutalmente desfigurados, como simples actos de venganza o reclamos territoriales entre grupos rivales. A case study of the narcomedia-narcomensajes, narcovideos, and narcomantas- in Yucatán in 2008, as well as an exploration of contemporary public debates relating the narcomedia at the national level over the ensuing years, provides some alternative ways to read the narcomedia: in the context of the rise of the new media in terms of networks of relationships between new and "old" media as interventions into regionally embedded and nationally framed political struggles and as a focal point of struggles over media censorship, the public sphere, and counterpublics in contemporary Mexico.
officials have said Mellado-Cruz returned to the Gulf Cartel in a lower profile in the last years of his life.Most commentators interpret the messages left by drug traffickers-often accompanied by gruesomely disfigured human remains-as simple acts of score-settling or claims of territory between rival groups. The Zetas were an offshoot of the Gulf Cartel known for beheading civilians. Officials said he was killed in a shootout with Mexican federal police in the border region of Tamaulipas in 2014. Several of the defendants remain fugitives and two have died, including the man associates referred to as Comandante, or Commander, Galindo Mellado-Cruz, the founder of the Zetas. So far, 35 codefendants have entered guilty pleas, though a number of them has yet to be sentenced.
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She remained free on bond and will voluntarily surrender to officials. Lydea Gonzalez, 56, who was not mentioned by nickname in the indictment, was sentenced to eight months in prison and two years of supervised release. Julio Cesar Lerma, 36, known as El Licenciado, or the Graduate, who had pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana was sentenced time already served in federal detention.