While the first narcoseries as Sin tetas no hay paraiso and Las munecas de la mafia have had characterized female roles as victims, Telemundo (a broadcast television network) has changed this image by including leading female roles of the drug dealing. Seemingly, it provokes an investment in the traditional gender roles, because these women turn into an active agent in a patriarchal world. Nevertheless, these protagonists are defined by means of stereotypically feminine elements, such as kindness, sacrifice and maternity that are concreted, in a literal and metaphorical way, in two analyzed narcoseries: La Reina del Sur and Camelia la texana. Notwithstanding, the real subversive act of these characters-in order to depart from gender prototypes-is their abilities to analyze and decide. They, rather than consider themselves as victims of their circumstances, assume their responsibility for the life that they have chosen and their violent acts.