
The sudden disappearance of the typical Latin American dictator resulted in the simultaneous retirement of the typical Latin American guerrilla [...] the fall of authoritarian regimes became obsolete revolutionary struggles and those who survived had to take off their masks, hang their coats, cornering their superpowers and reinvent themselves as ordinary citizens.
Unlike the realism of the past, narco's novel, does not support moral judgments, does not intend to preach to anyone and just collecting a critical tool, but as the authors strive to recreate millimeter speech and customs of its actors, their lives wild and horrible deaths, has ended up becoming the only remnant of social criticism of our time ...
As the drug-related violence began playing in several countries, its writers were quick to incorporate it into their texts, first as a backdrop and then as the epicenter of action. In a bland and aseptic era, dominated by mistrust of politics, these powerful forces outside the law took on a role: poor teenagers, recruited by the mafia to become professional murderers, beautiful young women used as currency; gunmen faced no other reason than the existential void, heroes and villains pathetic, not even easy to distinguish from each other; a universe dominated by danger, unpredictability and death clumsy and poorly paid police, always sold to the highest bidder, and of course a few bosses converted multimillionaires who own private armies and estates ...
If anything Latin American literature has not disappeared entirely, due to the persistence of this social scourge that has become in its new-and perhaps only-brand. A formula = Magical Realism in Latin America today is opposed Latin American narco = Novel.
* Jorge Volpi. Insomnia Bolivar. Mexico: Discussion. 2009. 259 p.