Resumen de Of Narcos and Necros: Violence and Morality in Sabina Berman's El narco negocia con Dios
In spite of his professional success, he lives in a prescription-drug infused fog in order to escape from a domestic reality where he is afraid to voice his wants and needs. Many of the ethical questions raised in Berman's play undoubtedly were on the forefront of the audience's mind as El narco negocia con Dios was staged during the waning months of Felipe Calderón's presidential sexenio, the six-year term that opened with a declaration of a war on narcotrafficking through the first military intervention Operativo Conjunto Michoacán and came to a gruesome close with some 104,000 Mexicans killed and more than 14,000 missing according to the government's own Sistema Nacional de Seguridad Pública (Agencia Reforma par. 8). Opening on June 15, 2012, two weeks before the next presidential election, El narco surely mirrored the public's introspection and sense of despair before the present and future political, societal, and moral state of Mexico. In an interview with Alfonso Varona, Berman reveals that she had not thought about an earlier play El gordo, la pájara y el narco, written in 1994 (itself an earlier version of the play Krisis staged in 1996) until she was contacted by a university group seeking to stage the former drama, revealing that "Algo que había escrito como farsa, 10 años después se volvió realismo, y tocaba uno de mis temas personales más importantes, y un tema que está ausente en la discusión en México, que a mí me enerva que esté ausente, que es la moral" (138).
