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In early November, Senator Zoé Robledo and Congresswoman Lía Limón released a joint statement in which they called upon the Secretary of the Interior and the Federal Telecommunications Institute to be more restrictive with regards to commercial television channels airing narcotelenovelas during the family programming time slot. According to the two officials, the airing of such programs during that time period is in violation of the Telecommunications and Broadcasting Federal Law, because the content of the series "promotes and glorifies violence and depicts drug trafficking and its [related] activities as an aspirational life-style" and is thus inadequate for young viewers.
The officials have pushed for the narcotelenovelas to either be taken off the air or, failing that, that they be broadcast at a later hour, as these series "weaken the social fabric of Mexican families" by promoting wrong values and behaviours which feed organized crime.
