Matthew Heineman «s «Cartel Land» is indeed a gruesome and riveting account of how the narco violence has kept
entire towns in the state of Michoacán hostage, and how a group of civilians, the «Autodefensas,» took matters into their own hands and became a reactive
form of rogue institution that had, initially, no ties to the federal government, but it's also a profoundly humanistic and intellectually complex work.