Mexico battles proliferation of drug language - AP/FoxNews.com: "There are a half dozen words for drug cartel informants, and double that for drug war dead. 'Narco' has become a general prefix. The trend has people worrying that Mexico is developing a kind of offhand jargon that anesthetizes people by making escalating violence seem routine.
Some experts, however, say slang and euphemisms can help people deal with the horrors around them.
Slang for those killed in Mexico's bloody drug war depends on how the victims are found. 'Encobijados' are bodies wrapped in a blanket. 'Encajuelados' are those stuffed in a car trunk. 'Encintados' are suffocated in packing tape."
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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