O Cartel de Medellín e Pablo Escobar na Imprensa Maranhense (1984 – 1993)

Abstract

This monograph analyzes how the Maranhão press (newspapers O Estado do Maranhão and O Imparcial) approached the formation, performance and dismantling of the Medellin Cartel in Colombia and the trajectory of its main leader, Pablo Escobar from 1984 to 1993. We assume that The approach in the Brazilian press about the Colombian government's struggle against the Medellin Cartel and Pablo Escobar contributed to the legitimation of representations and a social imaginary about Colombia as a place in Latin America dominated by drug trafficking. For the development of this hypothesis, we try to understand how the newspapers of great circulation contribute to the consolidation of social imaginary about Latin America and, particularly, about Colombia in Brazil.