Searching for Significance among Drug Lords and Death Squads: The Covert Netherworld as Invisible Incubator for Illicit Commerce by Alfred W. McCoy

“…By deftly playing upon this netherworld’s politics and illicit commerce along the Burma-Thai borderlands, a regional ‘drug lord’ amassed sufficient local power to dominate the global heroin trade for over a decade and simultaneously sustain an ethnic revolt for nearly 15 years. …”
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Un golpe al corazón de la violencia: Yuri Herrera by Alicia Llarena

“…Yuri Herrera’s Trabajos del reino does it instead the direct way, trough a talented narcocorridos-song writer, who works for a drug lord. His artist eyes disarmed the “vida narca” glamour, making visible his psychic violence in a literary purpose that flee, intentionally, from the common places of the theme, contributing to the awareness and denounce with the discourse and language of the “contramaquina”.…”
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Les narcocorridos du Movimiento Alterado : une poésie de la rue ? by Claude Chastagner

“…Mexican-American artists such as El Komander use polka or waltz tunes to describe in violent and explicit words the daily lives of drug lords. Most artists and record companies are located in California, from where the style is exported to Mexico. …”
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“The cultural anthropology of Latin American narcos: notes on showy consumption” by Amedeo Paparoni

“…The consumption stories elaborated by powerful drug lords can have social and criminal significance. …”
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