Blood on the Wall (2020) - full transcript

A group of migrants seeking a better life heads to the United States moving drugs and money all across the border.

I'll tell you something

a guy who grows up
in a rich neighborhood

with a father who is a
lawyer or a politician

got it easy, man

This a big chunk of cash

$100,000 in each package

there are other
guys whose parents

have to slave in a store

And that's just for 500.

Pro te mas.

How do you know my struggle?



Have you slept in a park?

Have you cried
yourself to sleep?

When you were 12 years old?

I got 5 kids and
I'm only 22 years old

so you tell me

did I do wrong
or did I do right?

Goddamn gringos

they didn't get us

We are bringing $120,000 dollars

We make 3 trips per
week to deliver money

This money is
for 3 kilos of heroin

There is a saying that goes

United States gives the weapons

Mexico gives the dead



Americans engage
in the wars they want

in Mexico war just shows up

There are a number
of organizations

that are in the
narcotrafficking business

and the production of drugs

but now Mexico
is too contaminated

the areas that
should be cleaned up

are the ones operated
by the southern cartels

which are the
most conflicted areas

Mexico never had,
uh, the rule of law.

There was no such thing and
there has been no such thing.

What there was under the
long-time pre-authoritarian regime

was what people called...

Una estado de orden...

the rule of order.

The PRI was able to

rule Mexico for nearly 70 years.

It was able to deliver the
goods with enough growth,

enough construction of
the middle class to make

people reasonably happy.

It was a party that was going
to permit modernity in Mexico.

But in reality what it was,

was a mechanism
of control of power.

Corruption in Mexico

went from being
an isolated incident

to be a political system

Throughout the years

the PRI party became
the crime administrator

from its position of power

The problem of course
came when economic growth

was not what it used to be and

they stopped
delivering the goods,

and there were a series of greater
tensions with the United States,

which also made
life very difficult.

There are no jobs here

there are few ways to survive

you've got do what you've got do

weapons and migration

are treated as if
they are both a crime

but you never know the
reality of an immigrant

People migrate out of need

Migration is not a crime

because we have
the right to a better life

Border officials expect today

another caravan
from Central America

arriving to the border

between Guatemala and Mexico

We are in Guatemala
and we'll make it to Mexico

We are not criminals!

We are workers!

I need to find my boyfriend

if I am not with him
I don't feel protected

because if someone
wants to hurt me

I know he will protect me

there he is

This is serious "border love"

I wasn't planning
to leave my country

but when I saw
the caravan leaving

I gave it a thought

I don't have family in Honduras

I have no job or
a place to sleep

I should leave

maybe my life will change there

I just turned 17

I truly hope that
my life will change

In Honduras lots of
young women are raped

I am a rape victim

The gangs commit crimes

and we get blamed

They have to capture
the gangsters and rapists

The reason we are here

is because our goddamn president

where are the jobs and projects

that would employ young people?

That's why we are migrating here

I just want to
see you and kiss you

because nobody can
love you like I do

Nobody will tell
you I love you like me

All these guys

we know each other
since we were kids

and they have
never left me alone

for me they are my family

not blood family but hood family

I called Mexico, said, look,

I hope you're not
gonna let these people

come through your country
and march 1,000 miles up

through your country
and come through our border.

Everybody wants
to go through Mexico,

they don't wanna stay in Mexico,

so that's the plan right there.

I hope that, uh, Mexican
authorities doesn't stop us.

The people united
will never be defeated

Mexico here we come

This caravan is causing

militarization and closing
at the southern border

We crossed

It's being stopped as
of this moment by Mexico,

so we appreciate very much
what Mexico's doing but as of

this moment you
see what's happening.

It's being stopped.

What we are looking for

is what we can't
find in our country

I came to have a future

to leave suffering behind

It gives me
strength and motivation

to travel with the
people in the caravan

We have no money

people here in Guatemala

have supported us

they have given us
food water and clothing

I left Honduras
with 1,000 lempiras

We are about 15 people

Only men

I am the only girl in this group

We know we'll
encounter gangs and extortion

and cartels

but if we stick together
we'll defend ourselves

Cross over!

You can do it!

People crossed the river
and are already in Mexico

nobody is being detained

Then let's cross the river

Let's do it

It feels so
nice to be in the water

We are so happy
to step into Mexico

Mexico here we are!

I have never
traveled in a caravan

but I heard that
children are allowed

We left Guatemala

because my stepfather
was causing problems

my mother suffered his abuses

my brothers were beaten

the problems started

when he got involved
in drug trafficking

There was so much violence

that we couldn't go out

there is a gang that
comes from the city to kill

recently they killed
a little girl we knew

she was only 10 years old

they shot her

Now we are waiting

for the Mexican
humanitarian visa

In Mexico humanitarian
visas are for sale

some may spend months
filling out requirements

in Mexico you can buy
a visa for 50,000 pesos

The United States
border will start here

Chiapas will be
the biggest funnel

for people who want to
get to the Northern border

People help us out

they give us food

we appreciate that people
give us food or water

I want to go all
the way to Tijuana

but I have to protect my kids

from the youngest to the oldest

There are risks when you have

women who are
traveling by themselves.

They are exposed to
rape and extortion.

This is why you start
to see the development of the

caravans because the caravan
is a way at least for people

to be slightly more safe and
to avoid being in the hands of

people who will hurt
them and maybe kill them.

In San Fernando, Tamaulipas

72 bodies were found

they are presumably migrants

For example,

a group of Central American
migrants were kidnapped.

They were lined up
against the wall,

handcuffed and executed by a
drug cartel called Los Zetas.

The, uh, Zetas feared
that these migrants were

gonna become recruits
for an opposing cartel.

In the same area they found
another mass grave of migrants from

Central America primarily,

with 193 people.

If you were trying to understand
who these migrants are,

I would describe them as
people who are fleeing from

deadly criminal violence.

People will often refer
to U.S. Foreign Policy

as being the cause
of failed states,

certainly Honduras
and, uh, El Salvador, uh,

if not so much in Guatemala.

And, uh, there's no question
that the United States, uh,

bears responsibility for
wars in, uh, Central America.

The U.S. in the midst

of the second part
of the Cold War, uh, seized

Central America as
the proverbial domino of

Communist Soviet
influence in the Americas.

My fellow Americans,

I must speak to you tonight
about a mounting danger in

Central America that threatens
the security of the United States.

Central America has
a long record with the USA,

they have a record of invasions,

they have a record of wars.

They have records
of interventions.

And they have a record
that has pragmated Mexico.

The record of
training for violence.

War!

Kill

Blood

Die

Though I think that we have
to look at this human tragedy

that affects so much people
as a regional problem and

it is a problem that goes
from the USA to Columbia.

Poppies in the mountains

have been sown

for over 40 years

and after all these years

people continue to be screwed

I know this is against the law

but how am I
supposed to get the money

to dress my children?

On a good day

we get one and a
half kilos of gum

These people
are not narco-traffickers

they farm a
plant that is illegal

because it is the only
thing they have been taught

The government didn't
teach them this trade

outsiders came to teach
them how to grow poppies

People from Sinaloa came here

and taught us how
to grow this plant

The history of Mexico has
left aside its indigenous people.

They have been victims
of this war against drugs.

Many times they have been
slaved to produce the drug products.

Once we take
the gum out of the poppy

that is the end
of the farmer's job

from there on the
narco-trafficking starts

it all ends up
in the United States

Nowadays there is not much work

our business is not doing well

making pure heroin
became expensive

synthetic opioids
took over the market

and our business
has gone down the drain

this is already dried

it takes about 3 hours
of work to get 2 kilos

if it gets wet then you ruin it

out of ten kilos you
may get about one kilo

let's see how much we got here

let's say this is 5 kilos

which is about 35,000 pesos

in the United States
we sell it for much more

and get a huge profit

From
the late '70s through the '90s

organized crime began to grow.

And they became these huge
organizations that the country

truly hadn't seen before.

Now this began in Sinaloa,

particularly the mountains
of where El Chapo is from.

They were loosely tied

geographically based smugglers,

who would smuggle anything,

chili peppers, tires,
blue jeans, whatever

they thought they could get up
to the U.S. border, uh, for profit.

Now in the 1970s, many of
them left the mountains of

Sinaloa and
relocated to Guadalajara.

So suddenly you had Mexico's
drug trade not in a backwater province,

but in Mexico's
second city: Guadalajara.

That's when
the cartel got strong

and by the 1980s they
were a very powerful group

DEA was trying to get Washington
to pay attention to Mexico and

Washington was
like yeah, Mexico,

a bunch of hicks
trafficking drugs.

No big deal.

Columbia's where the
big drug traffickers are.

And they're like, no, no,
there's a cartel in Mexico,

it's the Guadalajara Cartel,

which is a federation of
criminals who share resources,

who share political connections.

And they began to produce particularly
marijuana on an industrial scale,

the biggest marijuana plantations
the world had ever seen.

In 1984 a huge
ranch was discovered

the Buffalo ranch

owned by Rafael Caro Quintero

it was later discovered

that the plantation had
the blessing of the U.S.

the plan was that
the money collected

with the sale of this crop

would fund the
Contras in Nicaragua

a plan masterminded
by Oliver North

The subject of today's hearings,

allegations of CIA
involvement in the

United States drug sales
to finance the Contras in

the Nicaraguan War.

You made false statements

to them about your activities in

support of the contras.

I misled the Congress.

I did.

In the 1980s

the demand of drugs
in the U.S. changed

and cocaine
consumption increased

and the cocaine was sent

from Columbia to
the United States

by the Caribbean route

but President Ronald Reagan

closed the drug trafficking
Caribbean route

Captain, that was your
last set of warning shots.

And that forced the Columbians

to use Mexico and its
drugtrafficking organizations

So the Guadalajara cartel
also got into expanding

the trafficking of cocaine

from Columbia
and their connection to

South America was the
Honduran trafficker,

Juan Ramón Matta-Ballesteros.

He was playing this role of
connecting the Columbians and

the Mexicans and he was
connected to the military and

the Honduran military at the
time was servicing U.S. interests.

He was helping the
Honduran military and

the U.S. move goods,
perhaps even weapons,

down to the
counter-revolutionary forces

in Nicaragua,
known as the Contras.

And in his own private side,
he was moving cocaine north to

the United States
in his aircraft.

At the same time, the
Columbian cartels had decided

to better incentivize their
Mexican colleagues and started

paying Mexican drug syndicates
instead of money with cocaine,

with produce.

All this cocaine money just
flooded in and the drug cartels,

they weren't a bunch of hicks from
the Sinaloa Mountains anymore,

these guys were starting
to make huge amounts of money.

The American DEA agents,
one of them in particular,

became a thorn in the side
of the Guadalajara Cartel and

that was
Enrique "Kike" Camarena.

He began to find out about
their huge marijuana plantations

and pressured
for them to be busted.

The Drug Enforcement
Administration chief

in Mexico identified the bodies
as DEA agent Enrique Camarena

and pilot Alfredo Zavala.

When they kidnapped and
murdered Kike Camarena,

there was a huge reaction from the
Americans and under the pressure,

Caro Quintero and
Ernesto Fonseca, and

Head of the Guadalajara Cartel

Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo
was arrested.

Most of history of the next 20
years is partially explained by

that moment because
out of that arose what

was later known as
the Sinaloa Cartel.

So what became the
Sinaloa Cartel was really

a federation of
gangster warlords and.

These included Ismael Zambada,

El Chapo and also
his childhood friend,

who was from a
village right next to his,

Arturo Beltrán Leyva.

Now together they reorganized
the drug trafficking business

to become the
biggest cartel in Mexico.

Everyone had
their own territories

Tijuana

Nogales

Juarez

each one commanded
their own turf

their business was united

El Chapo and the Beltrán
Leyvas worked together

since the early days
of the narco business

they were lifelong allies

Wahoo!

When I was a child

I would look at
El Chapo's people

I wanted to be just like them

my dream was

to work for El Chapo one day

we know El Chapo is famous

he has helped
people in these towns

and we would like
to see him out of prison

El Chapo had a political
discourse about Sinaloa

and he would speak
for all the people

and he got our support

if he hadn't been caught

maybe we would be less doomed

In Acapulco in the early 90s

everything was
controlled by the narcos

they had a golden life

with a party lifestyle

they started buying nightclubs

they had surveillance
posts along the coast

it was a period

when we had peace

The narcos were
all a happy family

the had a kind of consortium

and they divided
the Mexican territory

and the states of
Guerrero and Morelos

was owned by Arturo Beltran

the Beltrans were
the owners of the turf

Also El Chapo ran
the Cartel of Sinaloa

There was the Carrillo
family of Ciudad Juarez

There was the
Arellano family of Tijuana

and Osiel Cárdenas of Tamaulipas

And they kept a relative peace

if someone crossed the line

they would kill him

that was it

Then you had very clear
rules of engagement and

very clear people with whom
you know you need to speak in

order to get things done.

At this point, there's
accusations that the

drug trafficking business was controlled
from the presidential palace itself

with allegations that
point man was Raúl Salinas,

the president's own brother.

It seems the narcos could
reach the very pinnacle of power.

The Sinaloa cartel

continues to work
in an orderly manner

but many people enjoy
killing without a reason

they get addicted to
killing as if it was a drug

I don't

you can't break the rules

if someone doesn't
want to obey the rules

they will call me

and I know what I have to do

I will bring him alive
or dead to the boss

it's that simple

if it cannot take
him in good terms

I would take him in bad terms

The great majority

of the people who are coming now

are not coming from Mexico,

they're coming
from Central America.

This situation was created
because of the authorities

in California deporting
criminal gang, MS-13,

to El Salvador.

But they did not give
El Salvador any warning and

they were not prepared for
this type of criminal organization.

I am going swimming

Everyone is here

It's cold

I've seen videos of big snakes

they can eat
a whole person at once

We pretend this
an adventurous vacation

we organize games for them

and when they are sad

I tell them that the
place we are going is better

Just because we are migrants

it doesn't mean we are criminals

or bad people

In the 1990s, the
economic system began to

change towards what
people call neo-liberalism,

economic liberalization,
privatizations,

with the expectation
this is going to promote

dynamic economic growth
and inclusiveness.

And it turns out what we
have is very low growth,

huge concentration of wealth.

The Mexican government
favored a few groups,

a few individuals at the
expense of the broader population.

Mexico has also
expelled its own people

especially from
the indigenous regions

this is one of the
countries where the gap

between the super
rich and the poor

has widened more in recent years

The indigenous
people in this country

have the highest levels
of marginalization

political oppression

and racial discrimination

These people

have been stripped

of their land and
natural resources

We're entering a new era
of economic development

NAFTA-the free trade
agreement comes into effect

On New Year's Eve
many Mexicans went to bed

hoping they would wake up
to a first world utopia

where they could buy
all kinds of products

Mexico, Mexico!

1994 was
a defining year for Mexico.

There was an armed
uprising by the Zapatistas.

We are asking
for an amendment to NAFTA

our petition has
infuriated the government

And it was the beginning
of the end for the PRI.

The country began one of
its worst economic crises.

Mexico's main demand

is democracy

Its presidential
candidate was murdered.

And this all brought
Mexico right to the edge.

In the year 2000 Mexico went
through this huge political change.

The PRI lost the presidency
for the first time in 71 years.

You began to see the
decentralization of power.

The underworld,

they no longer have
a single interlocutor.

That was something new and
what that did is that opened

up space for these
increasingly large criminal groups

to take more of the pie.

As the competition rises,
they begin to arm themselves

in a way that is
much more military,

literally having gun battles.

In public spaces, very often.

This is the
first time he is on a train

No big deal
just like riding a bus

The Army guards
the area where Felipe Calderón

will be sworn in
as the new president

Calderón
won by a margin of point .56%

so it was the smallest
margin in the history of

the presidential elections.

Members of Congress

please go back to your seats

I won the election,
in very tight elections,

in 2006.

My opponent tried to block
the inauguration ceremony but

I was able to
overcome that situation,

I got into the
Congress parlors and

I made my oath of office.

Fraud!

Fraud!

Felipe Calderón
came to power in 2006

and 14 days into the office

he launched the
so-called war on drugs

He felt that he needed to
legitimize his administration

by doing something spectacular.

I never declared
a war on drugs, never.

But it's quite common to
say the war on drugs that

President Calderón declared.

That's, it's false.

The main issue for me was rule
of law and security for the people.

At least 40 hours

lasted the battle
between federal forces

and sicarios of
the Michoacan Cartel

Calderón, he went
in there thinking he would,

you know, hit with the
power of the state and

things would calm down.

But the opposite happened.

The drug traffickers
murdering high-level officials

and you start to see
the drug cartels using

incredible violence
against each other.

The violence sky rockets,

the violence really
runs out of control.

There was really
no turning back.

He had, he had opened the
Pandora's box at that stage.

President Calderón is

taking a tough
stand against, uh,

organized crime and drugs.

In 2007, the
Merida Initiative was set up

between Mexico and
the United States.

Mr. President, you and I
have laid the foundation.

The Bush
Administration agreed that

because you had guns and
bulk cash moving from the

United States
into Mexico, the U.S.

needed to put some
skin into the game.

Finally the
Americans would experience...

accept their responsibility

for being a consumer country and

that they have to attack
demand as well as supply.

America's
public enemy number one...

Every American President
since Nixon has said that.

The most serious
problem today is cocaine.

We want
to reduce our demand for...

But no American president...

When there
is demand, there is supply.

Because they're not crazy
has gone after to reduce

the consumption of
drugs in the United States.

Why?

Because it's not
something American society

is willing to pay.

When the
Calderón Administration came in,

the focus was on the
resting and decapitating

the leadership of
the drug syndicates,

the so-called kingpin strategy.

Alfredo Beltran Leyva

is accused of being
one of the leaders

of the
Beltran Leyva brothers cartel

The Public Secretary Office

informs of the capture
of Edgar Valdez Villareal

Gerardo Alvarez Vázquez

Eduardo Teodoro Garcia Simental

alias El Teo

In coordination and support
of the governors and mayors,

the strategy was successful.

We captured
probably 25 of the 34.

The chief of chiefs has fallen

in Cuernavaca's downtown

The kingpin strategy

to eliminate the leaders

was a failure

When the government
attacked the cartels

a pact was broken

and this unleashed
the violence in Acapulco

♪ Oh, yeah ♪

♪ Hey ♪

♪ Acapulco, golden
tides are going in ♪

♪ Acapulco, golden
tides are going in ♪♪

In the 50s and 60s

Acapulco was very vibrant

This is the place that
many Hollywood people

call the sunshine Shangri-La.

Many people
spent their honeymoon here

JFK and Jackie were here

Elizabeth Taylor married here

Acapulco celebrities including

George Hamilton
enjoys the festivities.

Acapulco was beautiful beach,

beautiful sea, a place
where families went.

But Acapulco became a favorite
of the drug trade because it

is a port of entry.

A frontier nearby the Sierra Guerrero
where you have the poppy plantations,

where you have the
production of drugs

that then can go
out through the sea.

Photojournalists in Acapulco

have a dangerous life

you've got to be in
the street all the time

and the streets in
Acapulco are very dangerous

Every job in this
town is a risky business

Arturo Beltran Leyva
was the most senior narco

El Chapo Guzman started
as Arturo's bodyguard

Arturo taught all
the tricks to El Chapo

when the government
killed Arturo Beltran

new local groups emerged

and that's what
provoked the chaos

It got worse with
Arturo Beltran's death

that's when it all fell apart

What's gained
by cutting off the leaders?

All hell breaks loose

what are the
street gangs supposed to do?

They'll have to
kidnap and extort

for their own survival

that's just another war

Acapulco is a violent city

Acapulco is an ugly city

Acapulco is unsafe

but it's the coolest place

I grew up in this neighborhood

These are my brothers

the gang Acapulocos

these are my
neighborhood friends

We don't praise violence

we are just a product
of the environment

of what life is here

This is the feathered serpent

the eagle devouring the serpent

the coat of arms of Guerrero

the state where I was born

this is our culture

our ancestors
marked their bodies

the Aztecs and the Nahuas

we are like them

but in a different scenario

We got a report
of a woman killed here

The changes
in Acapulco are significant

due to organized crime

these groups own the turfs here

The municipal police work
in collusion with them

they are their street informants

they are the armed force
of the organized crime

there are cases in
which the municipal police

have disappeared people

For us the taxi drivers

killings have increased

and the main reason is extortion

I believe last year

127 taxi drivers were murdered

that's why now we
pay the extortion fee

some pay less some pay more

but we all pay

When the drug business is scarce

the narcos look for
other ways to make money

and the easy way is extortion

this is an easy way to get money

so that they can survive

and hold on to their turf

I'm totally against
extortions or kidnappings

I have killed my own people

because they did that
and I won't allow it

We no longer
have foreign tourists

cruises arrive and
people don't get off

you don't see
Americans or Canadians

in the streets

For example all these
were prosperous businesses

international brands like Gucci

now are all closed

For me it would
be good to have tourism

I work selling drugs

it's like any other business

people benefit and I do too

that's why I want to fix things

I want to do business
like Arturo Beltran

because he was a good leader

Somehow we need
to find a middle ground

we want a pact for
peace with everyone

everyone needs to be
part of the solution

even our brothers
of the organized crime

Someone was shot

this just happened

but people continue
with their life as usual

they continue eating
like nothing happened

as if there was
not a dead body here

A human head was found

and the police have arrived now

The basic institutions
of the Mexican state,

the police, the courts,
every day display, uh,

the incompetence
and politicization and

corruption that makes
them dysfunctional.

This is a country where 98%
of crimes are never solved.

And what does this mean
for an ordinary Mexican?

That if you are
the victim of a crime,

the probability of their
being some sort of rule of law

solution to your
issue will not happen.

A relationship exists

between crime and police forces

otherwise you could not explain

the crime levels in the country

how crime levels are sustained

and the high rates of impunity

The municipal police
mind their own business

they don't mess with us
and we don't bother them

if someone doesn't
want to work with us

they just have to leave us alone

but 80% of
municipal police works for us

The army can
give us some trouble

also the Marines and
some Federal Police

they can be problematic

but if I see a municipal
officer we just say hello

My mom's great grandmother

made it to the United States

but she returned to Guatemala

because she wanted
to die in her homeland

when I get to be an old man

I want to return to my
homeland and die there

Did you find the papers?

I already checked there

I am upset

because we lost
my legal documents

and the kids' documents

I will keep searching

but I think they are lost

people may question
if they are my children

they don't believe
that they are mine

without papers,
how can I prove it?

We've been together for 2 years

but I know her since
she was a little girl

we have shared hard times

we've been homeless

we've starved together

We've been cold

Hot

We endured long walks

we faced people who
look at us with disdain

people who believe that
all migrants are the same

Here in Mexico
there are narco-traffickers

prostitution rings and violence

yesterday we realized that

they were stealing children

they cover women's
noses with something

it seems to be a drug
that makes you faint

I am afraid but God knows my way

I am a bit concerned

Under the bridge 10 km from here

they dumped a body
wrapped in bed sheets

he was tied up

the message is that
we can also be killed

The state of Guerrero

is a region with a
high number of disappeared

people are desperate

they want to know where
their loved ones are

they want to find the corpses

to find some peace and comfort

when I see the federal police

or the state police or the army

they scare me more
than narco-traffickers

We search for
all the disappeared

who probably are in a mass grave

My name is Mario Vergara

I am looking for
my brother Tomás

kidnapped on July 5, 2012

to this day he is still missing

Every day 13 people
disappear in our country

The government doesn't
search for our relatives

This is a skull

this boy has a
bullet in the head

and was tied up

according to the
position in which he fell

he was shot and fell forward

In the area of Iguala we found

more than 3,000 fragments

or whole bones
scattered in the hills

It would be a miracle

if my sons were found alive

how can one
live with such a pain?

We had to face
the Mexican government

a government that
lies and represses us

It's so regrettable

dead bodies were found

the authorities
have been exposed

for their lack of responsibility

Those who should take care of us

are disappearing us

Ayotzinapa is a landmark
case in this country

Ayotzinapa proved
what we shout out loud

but they don't want to hear

the Ayotzinapa students
were disappeared

by three institutions
of the government

municipal, state,
and federal government

They have killed one of us

they killed him

call an ambulance

Why are you after us?

Goddamn dogs

It's not easy

to see your classmate die

watch them take
away your friends

and not be able to help them

What we don't want

is to see this happening again

it's the worst thing
that can happen to you

to have a son
disappeared is like dying

because you will
never have peace

The problem's ultimately
political and has to do

with accountability.

Who is responsible for what,

what agencies are responsible
for fighting crime,

who is accountable
by the system and

the answer is no one.

The truth is that
authorities can't stop violence

When your friends are murdered

when your relatives
are disappeared

when working
families are extorted

and nobody takes responsibility

people start to
organize themselves

We heard that two armed groups

are fighting
for control of the town

This is the ranch
of the criminal group DUMBOS

the DUMBOs started
in the business

of illegal sale of gasoline

that didn't bother anyone

but later they began
assaulting our citizens

Apparently the crocodile

was being fed
human flesh by the DUMBOS

but we haven't confirmed it yet

It all started when
the UPOEG came to our town

they wanted to
subject people by fear

they tried to
recruit them by force

they cannot tell me
to disarm my people

to put us in the
hands of Ernesto Gallardo

The Federal Police are here

also the Marines and the Army

they have surrounded
the police station

where the UPOEG
community police is

When we tried
to repel the DUMBOS

the Marines came after us

because we interfered
with DUMBOS' interests

but the citizens took charge

and they stopped the government

We are blocking the road

because they want to disarm
our community police UPOEG

they are the only organization

that we trust to keep us safe

We don't agree

we just want the Marines

we don't support either group

they don't think
about the people

What the government
is trying to do

is to regain control

and to disarm the
UPOEG community police

We want the government,
government, government

We have two alternatives

either the UPOEG
keeps their guns

or the UPOEG is disarmed
and the army stays

the agreement we have reached

is the UPEOG keeps the guns

and army leaves

No, this is not possible!

Who is going to be
responsible for our safety?

We don't know what
deal they made with UPOEG

so the police leaves the area

Let's go

It's a complex situation

people are upset

they would rather
defend themselves

than trust the
police or the Marines

It's always the same story

the government doesn't
deliver a solution

That's community police area

The UPOEG community police

carry the same kind of
weapons as the Marines

where do they get them?

These weapons are
exclusive for the Army

Mexico is one of the
most corrupt countries

our authorities are colluded
with narc-traffickers

and the politicians steal money

we live the consequences
in Acapulco on a daily bases

The state is corrupt

and allows illegal actions

to share the profits from it

at the moment
there are 13 governors

accused of stealing

people's money from public funds

In my government
no one will benefit

from impunity

no group or person

regardless of their power

will be allowed to
do illegal business

under the protection
of the government

Why Andrés Manuel López Obrador

won the last election?

Because he
pointed out corruption.

He pointed out how the rule
of law is an aspiration or

exists only to
protect the powerful.

He denounced the status
quo that does not work.

The country will have

an orderly and
peaceful transformation

we will end the
corruption and impunity

that prevent
Mexico's renaissance

The real question now is
whether he'll have the vision and

the statesmanship to build
institutions to contain

the enormous power that was
granted to him in this election.

I accept the challenge

Long live Mexico!

We'll be right back

Get her some shoes!

The camp bathrooms
are not clean anymore

too many people are using them

that's why I don't use them

Damn, we just realized

we won't be able to
withdraw money transfers

the bank accounts are blocked

what we are going
to do without money?

Because here we
don't get enough food

Got spare change boss?

Begging for money

Drug traffickers represent
the most dire challenge

to the rule of law in Mexico.

If the demand for drugs
is completely inelastic and

the supply for drugs
is completely elastic,

by putting pressure on the
demand side of the equation,

the only thing that you're doing
is creating economic incentives

for new players to come into the
business of production and trafficking.

The first step
is to blend the alcohol

adding benzyl cyanide and water

everything is cooked

in this pot

this machine heats it all up

and when steam comes out

we turn it off

These hoses are
connected to barrels of water

the water minimizes the smoke

so the helicopters
don't see the smoke

What do you call this product?

We call it black or red oil

Look at the illegal drug market,

Americans spend according
to the U.S. government

$100 billion every
year on illegal drugs.

Oil and water

we add chlorine to the mix

and now it is
just a matter of stirring

But also
look at the deeper issues

of why people
in these poor communities

that grow up with
unpaved streets,

with electricity not working,

with no running water,

are recruited so
easily by drug cartels.

This is it

we call it Galleta

While you produce
this are you aware of

the damage this
causes to the users?

Yes, we are aware

but life is hard

what we are supposed to
do to help our families?

My boyfriend turned himself in

to be deported back to Honduras

I am sad and want to cry

I told him just go away

I don't wanna see you anymore

he took his backpack
and I was left crying

I don't want to
continue without him

because with him I
feel safe and protected

but without him

I feel vulnerable

I feel incomplete
like something is missing

You are the most
handsome man on the world

I love you and you
are always on my mind

Let's go over there

Should I try it?

I will be fine, right?
You're my friends

You decide for yourself

OK, I will try it

This shit is like Satan

this is strong stuff

It could give you a holy death

wait wait Ludy

first let it burn

if you smoke this
part it will mess you up

don't swallow it just smoke it

This is a very dangerous life

Here you only got 2 options

prison or dead

the surveillance
plane is flying high

at this point I cannot go back

The real fight
against organized crime

is in the financial circuits

It's extremely hard
for a sovereign country

to get a hold of and go
after those institutions

when many of those institutions
are really involved in the

flowing economy
of their country.

Another scandal.

Giant HSBC had given
terrorists and drug dealers

access to
America's financial system.

Isn't this kind of shocking?

I'm not gonna quarrel
with you, Senator, of course.

Until we go after CEOs,

the ones that have
repeatedly ignored the law or

regulations on the
international scale and

we charge them criminally, I
think we're gonna be embroiled

in this type of money
laundering as long as

the cartels exist.

Wachovia bank received

deposits from the Sinaloa cartel

in the amount
of $378 billion dollars

this amount is equivalent

to one-third of Mexico's
Gross Domestic Product

Once the Mexican state decides

to launch an investigation
on their finances

maybe then

we will be able to dismantle

the monstrous criminal activity

that is rooted
in Mexico for years

I tried a drug called crystal

a drug you smoke in a light bulb

I didn't like it

it makes you feel
doubtful and confused

I don't wanna do it again

if I know that something is bad

I can fix it

I can make my own decisions

and I can choose my own path

At this
point we have 20,000 people

along the border,

basically living in shelters
at the kindness of strangers,

living on the
streets in many cases,

there's no support from the
United States for these people

and the Mexican government
has not provided any support either.

These illegal caravans
won't be allowed in the U.S.

People should turn back now

We have sent U.S. military
forces to the border

to do their job

President Trump unleashed

a tweet storm threatening to

close the southern
border with Mexico...

Consider deploying between

ten of 15,000 military personnel
to the U.S. Mexico border.

I turned myself
to the Mexican authorities

because I want to
go back to Honduras

It is harder to get food here

I am about 2 months pregnant

We double pack the drugs

and we use a special paper

to trick the security dogs

We are taking it to Los Angeles

there each kilo is worth $25,000

and if we take it to New York

we get $45,000 per kilo

it's easy to cross the border

because we bribe people

there's a lot of
corruption in the United States

we take orders

for heroin

cocaine

and crystal meth

I didn't want to do this job

I wanted to be a
doctor or a professional

but I need to eat
so I have to do this

No, there's no way out.

Especially if you're one of the
ones that take out the most drugs.

You're valuable.

You ain't gonna leave like that.

You gotta make me money.

This business
is like anything else

what we do is not right or wrong

it's just my business
and I do what I got to do

if someone wants
to consume drugs

it is their own decision

I move weapons to Mexico

and I cross drugs into the U.S.

I don't get nervous

I am used to this job

and I am not afraid

Where to?

To Phoenix

What's your business?

I live there

This is the perfect business

it doesn't end

it will be eternal

I am going
to enter the U.S.

look

I am in

I wish I was on
the other side already

but this fence doesn't allow me

and those green
people would stop me

This is what
separates me from my dad

I didn't grow up with my father

I've never met him

and my mother
worked all the time

as a child nobody
looked after me

these kids don't
have a father either

my role is to be the
father figure in the family

I wouldn't want

to be separated from my family

In spite of everything
we are still together

in good times and bad times

and even in desperate times

Charol has wished to go back

but I am always here for her

to give her strength
to keep moving forward

I remind her that
we do it for the children

We are a big family

we have better chances
crossing if we separate

we will reunite once we cross

Are you afraid?

Yes

It will be over soon

Dylan kiss me goodbye

It is time to cross

this is good place to cross

because there are
not many migration officers

Keep going straight ahead

Get down!

This path will take
them to San Diego

the border fence ends here

Do you see the hill over there?

We've got to run over there

They've crossed

they are now in
the United States

All the drugs we bring
from Mexico are pre-sold

some people think
that this is an easy job

but you are always at risk

if you hear the sirens

it could be the end of you

Everyone feels fear

but you tighten your
balls and go with it

Hello

are you ready?

I'll meet you in 15 minutes

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