Sentences with phrase «mexican drug war»

At the time, the Mexican Drug War was just beginning to make headlines internationally.

The exhibition includes fourteen large paintings completed between 2012 and 2014 that address the Mexican drug war.

This reminded me of Jasper de Beijer's colorful summer show of Mexican drug war victims.

SPECIAL JURY MENTION DEVIL»S FREEDOM (LA LIBERTAD DEL DIABLO)(d: Everardo González, Mexico 2017) JURY STATEMENT: A timely and urgent film on the ongoing Mexican drug war, that presents the many faces of violence without presenting any actual faces.

Not so much a direct sequel to Denis «Blade Runner 2049» Villeneuve's brilliant 2015 crime thriller, more a tangential spin - off story exploring a new angle on the US / Mexican drug war, Soldado, as its title suggests, is taking a somewhat more militarised direction.

Another dispatch from the Mexican drug war, this time about noncombatants caught in the crossfire, it pales in comparison to Gerardo Naranjo's Miss Bala in filmmaking terms but I suppose that it packs a crude punch (body count: 3 + 2 dogs).

Yet «Sicario» isn't the only Oscar - nominated study of the Mexican Drug war.

From Oscar - winning producer Kathryn Bigelow comes «Cartel Land,» director Matthew Heineman's documentary film about the Mexican drug war and vigilantes on both sides of the US - Mexican border.

Global Citizen spoke with the director of «City of Ghosts,» Matthew Heineman, the American filmmaker best known for his 2015 documentary Cartel Land about the Mexican drug war.

After a downturn in violence in the early years after the turn of the century, deaths related to Mexican drug wars totaled 121,669 between 2006 and 2012, according to a recent report from the Justice in Mexico project at the University of California - San Diego's Department of Politic Science and International Relations.

Cartel Land, the fascinating, infuriating documentary by Matthew Heineman, plunges us into the Mexican drugs wars without judgment or subjective bias.

The violence shown here exceeds that in Heineman's previous film, Cartel Land, about the Mexican drug wars.

A masterfully photographed and edited look at the carnage and chaos of the Mexican drug wars, Miss Bala is a crime thriller that pivots around this shell - shocked victim.

Why Buyers Are Circling: Heineman is an Emmy winner and Oscar nominee, who turned heads with «Cartel Land,» his daring look at the Mexican drug wars.

Matthew Heineman's documentary about the Mexican drug wars plays like a real - life version of some grim Sam Peckinpah Western in which violence and corruption have become endemic.

Winslow's riveting epic about the ongoing Mexican drug wars blends fact and fiction to tell the incredible, tragic story of the blood - drenched reign of the notorious El Chapo (Adán Barrera in the novel).

Not exact matches

Mexican leaders took the action on medical marijuana - and Pena Nietro has taken a new stance on illegal drugs as a whole - as the country faces a continued escalation in the drug wars that have ravaged Mexico for years.

We have an enormous vested interest in helping the Mexican government win the war with the drug cartels.

This look at the war on drugs shows the fight on both the US and Mexican side.

GC: The Mexican government had already declared war on drugs and organized crime by the time the war between the Gulf Cartel and Zetas began, and the cartel war attracted the Mexican government.

But these forces were not used at that time and were instead sent to northern Mexico to conduct operations against drug trafficking when the Mexican government started to work more closely with the United States to fight the so - called war on drugs.

At least 60,000 people are believed to have died between 2006 and 2012 as a result of the drug war as cartels, vigilante groups, and the Mexican army and police have battled each other.

At the same time as CJNG's pseudo-insurgency and violence between self - defense groups, the UN Human Rights Council has found that the drug war's disruptions to Mexican society have deepened a culture of lawlessness and impunity.

Formally launched in December 2006 by former President Felipe Calderon and then continued under his successor, Enrique Pena Nieto, the drug war struck a series of high profile blows against Mexican cartels.

AMATA, Mexico (Reuters)- Farmers growing marijuana in remote Mexican mountains are adopting techniques pioneered in the United States to produce more potent pot and boost profits from the cash crop that is fueling a deadly drug war.

• A month later the New York Times had a story on Mexican cartels recruiting young Mexican and American men to fight in the drug wars.

He says Mexican marijuana imports dropped by 40 percent «because they can't compete with the American quality and the American market... just two states stopping fighting the war on that drug, it has been effective.»

You may know enough about Mexican drug trafficking and that its war on drugs, which has left thousands dead, to appreciate Dr. Mireles's questions; and you may also have strong ethical and political views on vigilantism.

What's missing is a directorial point of view, including about vigilante groups, the so - called war on drugs, and Mexican and American policies and politics.

As a thriller its quite nerve wracking and as a metaphor for how innocent Mexican citizens are used as pawns in the drug war between the various gangs and the DEA its effective.

But its inclusion serves to throw into stark relief the very real terror and upheaval experienced by the drugs war's earliest casualties: average Mexicans who do not have the option to stay out of it.

In the Mexican state of Michoacán, small - town physician José «El Doctor» Mireles shepherds the Autodefensas, a civilian coalition waging its own war against the Knights Templar, a drug cartel operating with impunity, and perhaps with governmental complicity.

You think of what's happening with the Mexican drug trade as a war?

«Sicario»: A blood - dark crime drama starring Emily Blunt as an FBI idealist in an escalating war against Mexican drug lords.

The trailer for Sicario (Spanish for hitman) from director Denis Villeneuve (Enemy, Prisoners) is here and it's a tense two minutes of action and drama with Golden Globe winner Emily Blunt (Into the Woods, The Young Victoria) and Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro (Traffic, 21 Grams) fighting the war on drugs through a backdoor loophole that allows for a clandestine mission to apprehend a Mexican drug lord.

What's missing is a directorial point of view, including about vigilante groups, the so - called war on drugs, and Mexican and U.S. policies and politics.

Acclaimed director Denis Villeneueve explores the war against the Mexican drug cartels with the action thriller Sicario, which topped one of our writers» individual favourite lists and claims # 9 in our countdown.

But we've got the cartel drug war drama «Sicario: Day of the Soldado» (June 29, Sony / Columbia) anyway, just in time to add fire to the Mexican border controversy.

This is a thriller about the drug war on the U.S. - Mexican border.

But he's mostly interested in putting you in the middle of the immigration and drug war debates and showing you the complicated situations of everybody whose lives intersect with those issues on both sides of the US - Mexican border.

A divorcee, Kate is dedicated and resilient, she runs a kidnap response team that's suddenly sucked into a vortex of viciously warring Mexican drug cartels when a raid in an Arizona suburb uncovers 42 dead bodies and a baited - trap explosive that kills two officers.

Sicario: Denis Villeneuve's grimy depiction of U.S. law enforcement's any - means - necessary war against Mexican drug cartels is filmed with the kind of precision and technical artistry that it's almost beside the point whether the story itself is something you care to get swept along with.

In Western the brothers immerse themselves in two small towns on opposite sides of the Mexican - American border to witness the lives, images and experiences of residents increasingly impacted by the hazards of the drug war.

Language: English Genre: Action / Crime MPAA rating: R Director: Stefano Sollima Actors: Isabela Moner, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro Plot: The drug war on the U.S. - Mexican border has never been deadlier.

In this week's show, Peter Bradshaw and Catherine Shoard join Xan Brooks to review Suffragette, the tub - thumping civil rights drama starring Carey Mulligan, Sicario, with Emily Blunt as a gun - toting FBI agent facing off against Mexican drug cartels as well as colleagues Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro, Regression, in which Ethan Hawke investigates Emma Watson's satanic possession and cold war ice hockey documentary Red Army - Click here to see the video version

A mother's sustained cry of anguish and anger at the Mexican government for how easily it writes off Juarez's poor as collateral damage in the drug war, and at the citizens themselves for displaying the kind of complacency Martin Niemoller knew something about.

Emily Blunt gets a tough lesson in Mexican - US politics in this visceral drugs war drama from Denis Villeneuve.

Alongside the Oscar - nominated documentary Cartel Land, Ripstein's vision suggests US filmmakers are considering a new perspective on the Mexican - US drug war.

Best Setting: Bolivia — Ghost Recon Wildlands One of the most diverse biomes in the world, Bolivia served as a fantastic backdrop for the Ghosts» black ops war against the Mexican Santa Blanca drug cartel.

For La Langue des Morts (The Language of the Dead, 2012), Amorales created a graphic novel by collaging images from Mexican tabloids documenting the violence of the country's drug war.