Sentences with phrase «hands of drug cartels»

There are quite a few flashbacks to Breacher's past, wherein he lost his wife and son in a vicious kidnapping and torture scenario, filmed for his perusal, at the hands of a drug cartel he had been trying to take down — the very one he thinks is out to dismantle his crew one by one.

In this edition of the Jonathan Grave thriller series, Jonathan steps into a trap when he and Boxers travel to Mexico to rescue a busload of missionaries from the hands of a drug cartel.

Not exact matches

In fact, they encourage the sale of drugs and arms because it's putting money into the hands of powerful cartels that will hopefully overthrow the communist governments of these countries — a goal in America's best interests.

Matt Heineman's Cartel Land, which looks at both sides of a Mexican - American border zone where drugs and guns are driving vigilantes to take matters into their own hands, drew two awards from our jury, a best director award for the filmmaker and a best cinematography prize for Heineman and Matt Porwoll.

A Mexican drug cartel — led by a ferocious businesswoman, Elena (Salma Hayek), and her right hand man, Lado (Benicio Del Toro)-- intends to partner with Ben and Chon, regardless of their wishes.

Doc would be correct, of course, and as the plot of Thomas Pynchon's potboiler pastiche Inherent Vice grinds into high gear, he'll run afoul of several alive - folks - thought - dead, mysterious cults, more mysterious cartels, crazy drugs, loaded guns, subversives, countersubversives, obscure nautical laws, a band of dentists gone bad, and, worst of all, he will witness firsthand the slow strangulation of a certain dream of free living at the hands of nefarious historical forces.

When the dust clears, Cartel Land comes to equally despairing conclusions about the drug war and the attempts of ordinary citizens taking peacekeeping into their own hands.

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Whether proffered as a temptation directed at youth to join cartels or badges of worth, the «girls, drugs, and power that come hand in hand with goods of the drug trade» are translated here into traditional motifs.