This article examines the effects of rumors within the Mexican and U.S. governments' militarized war on drugs. Focusing on a period during which Mexican drug organizations were strengthened and violence increased, the article follows the lives of Mexican sex workers and their clients, as well as American missionaries living in a prostitution zone in Reynosa, Tamaulipas. Borders between nurco-controlled and state-controlled territory were shifted in and through the bodies of Reynosa's residents as a contagion of performative rumors came to occupy la zona. As residents told or listened to stories about torture and murder at the hands of narcos, their perceived vulnerability increased andjear came to predominate. In this article I theorize how rumors of violence shaped affective atmospheres of terror and altered spatial practices in a drug-war zone. Feelings of bodily risk first affected vulnerable populations and later spread to people who had previously Jelt secure in border zones. These narco-stories not only circulated terror but also allowed people to achieve intimacy and maintain social bonds through the shared experience of terror, [violence; affect; performativity; rumor; militarization; Mexico; borders]

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墨西哥与美国边境的情感恐怖气氛：雷诺萨卖淫区的暴力谣言

本文考察了墨西哥和美国政府军事化战争中谣言对毒品的影响。文章重点介绍了墨西哥毒品组织得到加强和暴力活动增加的时期，该文章讲述了墨西哥性工作者及其clients客以及住在塔毛利帕斯州雷诺萨卖淫区的美国传教士的生活。雷诺萨居民的尸体在努尔科控制领土和国家控制领土之间转移了边界，而随着传闻中的表演谣言不断蔓延。当居民在纳科斯手中讲述或聆听有关酷刑和谋杀的故事时，他们所感受到的脆弱性增加了，吉尔成为主要因素。在本文中，我将理论推论出暴力谣言如何在毒品战争地区塑造恐怖的情感气氛并改变空间实践。身体风险的感觉首先影响了脆弱的人群，后来又蔓延到了先前在边界地区过急的人。这些叙事故事不仅散布了恐怖，而且还使人们能够通过恐怖的共同经验实现亲密关系并维持社会纽带。影响; 性能 谣言; 军事化 墨西哥; 边界] 军事化 墨西哥; 边界] 军事化 墨西哥; 边界]