PUB - Publikationen an der Universität Bielefeld

Corruption in Latin America has become a constant, as the latest reports from Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index show, which place the Latin American continent among the most corrupt in the world. To date, the approaches developed to study this social phenomenon in disciplines such as economics, political science or sociology are heterogeneous, an object of study that has been little examined by cultural and literary studies. In this work, we analyze the representations of the corrupt politician in the series Narcos. The objective of this article is to critically examine how these audiovisual narratives represent the motive of corruption, which becomes an indispensable phenomenon to understand the political culture of Latin America, while at the same time deepening in the symbolic representations.