There's everything related to narcocultura, with music and images and what not that seem to worship drug lords power, that certainly seems to influence some people and wishing they could do/become that. From my personal anecdotal experience, that people are usually low-middle class and with no higher education.
I'm not sure if it's government embarrassment what makes them unwilling to acknowledge the problem. It is well known here that most of the time they work together. [0][1] (Two different governors)
I'm not sure if it's government embarrassment what makes them unwilling to acknowledge the problem. It is well known here that most of the time they work together. [0][1] (Two different governors)
[0] http://www.sinembargo.mx/03-07-2014/1046494 : title translation DEA links Tamaulipas former governor to Zetas
[1] http://www.fbi.gov/sanantonio/press-releases/2013/former-gov...