Melixa Abad Izquierdo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Political Science at Farmingdale State College. Her most recent essay is ‘A Lachrymose Heroine for the Masses: The Origins of the Cinderella Plotline in Mexican Telenovelas, 1968-1973’, in Modernization, Nation-Building, and Television History, edited by Stewart Anderson and Melissa Chakars.
If we come to see the drug epidemic as the health issue it is, el Chapo may become a genuine pop-cultural icon for the masses, not just a hackneyed Mexican ‘Robin Hood’.
Outside of Latin America telenovelas are perceived as a generic product. But each country possesses a unique form of telenovela, identifiable by its stylistic attributes.
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