The end of Cold War meant the end of the confrontation of the two well-know political blocks. During the Cold War, a series of propaganda strategies were developed which far from disappearing at the fall of the curtain have been "recycled" under the guise of the drug war. Moreover the American government has transferred the ghosts of communism to the drup war in its intemational relations with Latin America. The essay analyzes the complex and manipulated role of the media in the anti-drug war.