Daniela Renjel Encinas2026-03-222026-03-22202510.61820/dis.2683-3298.1758https://doi.org/10.61820/dis.2683-3298.1758https://andeanlibrary.org/handle/123456789/77493This essay explores the inheritances that the colombian narcotelenovela received from three different narrative aspects: melodrama, thriller and neo-police. Through the rescue of these inheritances, conceptualized from the academy, we will see the articulation and transformation of a popular genre into a specific product that tried to narrate day by day the flip side of a hegemonic story that, once exhausted, gave way to its own parody. The result is that narcotelenovela are a conceptually complex subgenre, but also capable of opening a democratic reflection on ignored responsibilities. The essay concludes that this exercise has allowed the telenovela, understood as an entertainment narrative, to advance in the reelaboration of a pending chapter in the history of Colombia and, on the other hand, to extend this demystifying analysis to the biographical series, which have come replace and/or continue the narcotelenovelas in television offer.enNarrativeArticulation (sociology)HegemonyEntertainmentDemocracyLiteratureArtSociologyHistoryAestheticsarticle