My Own Private Colombia: Griselda, Narcos, and Fantasies of the Drug Wars
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With the release of "Griselda," a Narcos-adjacent Netflix show that reboots Scarface as a woman as if this were the Ghostbusters, Jessa and Nico look at the specific place Colombia and the international drug wars has in the American imagination.  http://theculturewedeserve.substack.com
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