‘El Disimulo, so the narco was born’: What is the ‘narconovela’ written by Rubén Rocha Moya about?

The governor of Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moya, and Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán have something in common: they were both born in Badiraguato, a Sinaloan municipality that borders Chihuahua and Durango, and that bears the stigma of being the ‘cuna’ of Mexican drug traffickers. Since his youth, Rocha Moya, who is a teacher of training and a law graduate, has not been alien to the phenomenon of drug trafficking in Mexico. In fact, among his publications, …