Title: A resolution condemning the VH1 television show Cartel Crew.
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
This resolution urges VH1 to cancel its television show "Cartel Crew," reconsider its standards when developing television shows, and refuse to spread the message that crime is profitable.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 444 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 444

            Condemning the VH1 television show Cartel Crew.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 21, 2019

 Mr. Kennedy submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
         the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                               RESOLUTION


 
            Condemning the VH1 television show Cartel Crew.

Whereas the VH1 television show Cartel Crew glorifies drug cartels and 
        individuals who live in luxury as a result of the wealth that drug 
        cartels corruptly amass;
Whereas there is concern that youth across the United States may watch Cartel 
        Crew and come to believe that crime is profitable;
Whereas the words and deeds of the cast members of Cartel Crew suggest that 
        those cast members have no interest in separating themselves from their 
        illicit pasts;
Whereas the relatives of the cast members of Cartel Crew are some of the worst 
        criminals in history;
Whereas the mother of Michael Blanco, Griselda Blanco, is better known as 
        ``Cocaine Godmother'', a drug lord in the Medellin Cartel who was 
        responsible for nearly 200 murders while transporting cocaine from 
        Colombia to the United States in the 1990s and early 2000s;
Whereas Michael Blanco defended his mother when asked about her crimes, saying 
        that she ``didn't have a choice'', due to the fact that she grew up 
        poor;
Whereas the newest addition to the cast of Cartel Crew, Emma Coronel Aispuro 
        (referred to in this preamble as ``Aispuro''), is the wife of Joaquin 
        Guzman Loera (referred to in this preamble as ``El Chapo'');
Whereas, as of the date of the adoption of this resolution, El Chapo is the 
        single most dangerous individual alive, having created the Sinaloa 
        Cartel and led it on its destructive path of trafficking drugs and 
        individuals for decades;
Whereas, since establishing his crime syndicate in the late 1980s, El Chapo has 
        been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of individuals, 
        through both direct violence and the devastating impact of drug 
        addiction;
Whereas, at one point, El Chapo was on the Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List 
        published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation;
Whereas Aispuro--

    (1) helped El Chapo escape from a Mexican prison; and

    (2) was under investigation in the United States as recently as April 
2019; and

Whereas Aispuro clearly intends to profit from the notoriety her cartel 
        connections afford her, as she is developing a clothing line called ``El 
        Chapo Guzman'': Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate urges VH1--
            (1) to cancel Cartel Crew;
            (2) to reconsider its standards when developing television 
        shows so that victims of cartel bloodshed and destruction are 
        not further harmed; and
            (3) to be a better steward of public media by refusing to 
        spread the erroneous message that crime is profitable.
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