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Pablo Escobar was the king of cocaine, seeing himself as ‘a king of magicians’ because he had magically broken the geographic limits of the illegal cocaine trade. In other words, it is what we can consider in some ways a representation of illegality. To understand and define illegality, we must understand legality first. Omar Calabrese in his book Neo baroque defines legality as something that creates a border. A border can be constructed by cutting or defining limits, which is what Calabrese identifies semiotical...