Cartel Land
Cartel Land
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With unprecedented access, Cartel Land is a riveting, on-the-ground look at the journeys of two modern-day vigilante groups and their shared enemy – the murderous Mexican drug cartels.

In the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as "El Doctor," leads the Autodefensas, a citizen uprising against the violent Knights Templar drug cartel that has wreaked havoc on the region for years. Meanwhile, in Arizona's Altar Valley – a narrow, 52-mile-long desert corridor known as Cocaine Alley – Tim "Nailer" Foley, an American veteran, heads a small paramilitary group called Arizona Border Recon, whose goal is to stop Mexico’s drug wars from seeping across our border.


Matthew Heineman--Mexico/USA--2015--100 mins.

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   | JohnH#1

Tentative 3. Documentary seems all too real. However, the director admits in special features that he knew nothing about Michoacán (and I suspect by extension that he wasn't familiar with the Arizona borderland either. Also from special features it seemed evident that he doesn't speak Spanish well, if at all. I'm always suspicious about outsider reporters who parachute themselves into some hot spot thinking that they have the methodology for getting to the crux of a crisis in jig time. I fear that they can be manipulated by locals. Way back when, when the Vietnam crisis was heating up, I saw a video of a Canadian reporter who, using an interpreter, asked a villager what he really though of the Viet Cong. The interpreter said something,. The villager replied. According to the interpreter the man was adamant that the Viet Cong were defending him from the evil South Vietnamese government and its American "overlords". Later it was revealed the interpreter had asked the man to count from one to five. Ever since I've been wary of documentaries.

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