Should you watch Cartel Land?
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Cartel Land
Documentary · 2015
In the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as "El Doctor," shepherds a citizen uprising against the Knights Templar, the violent 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 halt Mexico’s drug wars from seeping across our border.
The sides of Cartel Land
- A doctor leading an armed uprising in Michoacán
- A vigilante patrol in the Arizona desert
- Cartel violence filmed from inside it
Cartel Land is good for you if…
- you want to hear from people living with a cartel rather than a report about them.
- you can take a camera that stays in the room during a gunfight.
- you like watching who really governs when the state stops.
Cartel Land is bad for you if…
- you can't watch real bodies and real gunfire.
- you need a story that ends with the problem solved.
About: vigilantism · corruption · violence
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