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In recent years, as the drug war has intensified, the Mexican military has allowed media professi... more In recent years, as the drug war has intensified, the Mexican military has allowed media professionals to explore its Museum of Drugs, which is used primarily to train soldiers, and to introduce the Museum's exhibits of narcocultura, or drug trafficking culture, to the larger public. Drawing on observations in the Museum, this article argues that the exhibits of narcocultura, by authorizing visualizations of drug traffickers for the military and the larger public and modeling the transformative logic of culture, both support the military's professionalization and serve as the basis for a campaign that calls for the watchfulness and support of civilians.

In recent years, as the drug war has intensified, the Mexican military has allowed media professi... more In recent years, as the drug war has intensified, the Mexican military has allowed media professionals to explore its Museum of Drugs, which is used primarily to train soldiers, and to introduce the Museum's exhibits of narcocultura, or drug trafficking culture, to the larger public. Drawing on observations in the Museum, this article argues that the exhibits of narcocultura, by authorizing visualizations of drug traffickers for the military and the larger public and modeling the transformative logic of culture, both support the military's professionalization and serve as the basis for a campaign that calls for the watchfulness and support of civilians.

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