Analysts, law enforcement sources and cartel contacts agree generational change is contributing to the unease: traditionalists often point to the hotheaded and exhibitionist tendencies of such narco "juniors", whose inherited power and wealth contrast with the rags-to-riches struggles of their fathers.
Being a thief is banal but writing about it is magnificent and with this exhibitionist act of tedious subversion, I have recreated myself once more as gullible, European radicals reclaim me for their own.
"A little later he was to be found swinging in an exhibitionist manner and for quite a prolonged period on one of the flags on the Cenotaph," which "unsurprisingly subsequently attracted a good deal of attention".
And in modern Britain a restless, exhibitionist place Mr Marr's Queen Elizabeth stands out for her discretion, and for understanding that symbols are "better off keeping mostly quiet".
Famously tolerant of colourful private lives, the French were bothered not so much by the marital turbulence as by the exhibitionist way in which the president seemed more concerned with his life than with theirs.
To him she was a landscape.She was not an exhibitionist, or not much of one, though she had scandalised her Aunt Allie by sunbathing naked on the deck of the big family house at Carmel, and it had been easy to take off her clothes for Edward.
Mr Sarkozy, Ray-Ban shades glued to his nose, squandered his popularity by turning his private life into an exhibitionist soap opera, earning the nickname President Bling-Bling.
"Please spare Gaza your military nihilism, your hasty behaviours, your anarchy and your exhibitionist rallies," he wrote.
She labels herself a "super social" performance artist and an exhibitionist, but notes that an online platform allows even "the ones who don't want to rip their clothes off and have everybody draw on them" direct interaction with their supporters.
THE most avid users of social-networking websites may be exhibitionist teenagers, but when it comes to more grown-up use by business people, such sites have a surprisingly long pedigree.
Ever the exhibitionist and risk-taker, confident of social success even as a child, he did not much care to conceal what he was doing.
