Violence In Narcocorridos

In narcocorridos, justice is most of the times achieved and enforced by males through violent acts. 85.19% of the songs tend to talk about establishing justice. From these songs, women are shown in the narcocorridos as less involved in the cartels while males are the ones who are more mentioned by having 21 out of 23 songs about males and almost half of them sang from the first point of view of a male. It is more likely for the songs to be about the main character defending itself while it is less likely to be about helping a relative. The preferred form of justice is through violence while policy options as bribery and robbing are equally considered. 86.96% the song mentions that the main character's action are approved or supported by their boss, drug-business partners, community members, or religious figures. 100% of the times, the people who in the beginning of the story were not part of cartels in the beginning, will join a cartel to solve their problems. 73.91% of the times this resulted in attaining or effectively establishing justice. This demonstrates that narcocorridos show physical violence as a normalized form to effectively achieve justice, especially by males.
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The data is meaningful because it does not only includes the results of each category, but it also makes connections between different columns. For instance, I compared the column that represents economic struggles as a problem and compared it with the one that counted wealth. With the information presented in the spreadsheet, I could argue that, though narcocorridos show physical violence as part of the enforcement and achievement of justice, this process and problems look different among genders. I could also argue that non-heterosexuality is seen as a taboo topic among these genre. Therefore, I would argue that narcocorridos portray physical violence as necessary to attain and enforce