The movie delivers an unprecedented view into the lives of two modern - day
vigilante leaders who have taken up arms against the murderous Mexican drug cartels on separate sides of the Mexico and U.S. border.
Leo Gordon, possessor of one of the meanest faces in the movies, plays Quantrill, but top billing is bestowed upon Steve Cochran as Westcott, a Confederate officer assigned to collaborate with
the vigilante leader in a raid on an ammunition depot in Lawrence, Kansas.
It's this lack of rule of law that pushes many men like imprisoned
vigilante leader José Manuel Mireles to take up arms and avenge the death of a loved one.
Not exact matches
The deputy minority
leader, Mr James Klutse Avedzi at a press conference on Tuesday April 18 said «It has been 100 days of hardships, deceit, wasteful expenditure on presidential swearing in ceremonies in Accra and Kyebi, wasteful expenditure on Ghana@60 celebrations, terrorism by Invincible Forces, Delta Forces and all the hidden partisan
vigilante forces.»
Daily Trust quoted a witness as telling newsmen that the seven victims included a soldier and a
leader of the local
vigilante, adding that the insurgents laid ambush on their victims.
A group, Human Rights Watch in October released a report claiming that Camp
leaders, Police Officers, Soldiers,
Vigilante groups and other authorities working at Internally Displaced Persons camp in the North, have been raping and sexually exploiting some of the Female IDPs.
Name and shame political party
leaders who support and patronize the services of
vigilante groups.
It's a story that stars the
vigilante army's charismatic
leader — a handsome, grey - haired, moustachio'd surgeon and grandfather — by the name of Dr. Jose Manuel Mireles.
The film, directed by Matthew Heinemen, focuses on the
leaders of both
vigilante groups, including a Mexican doctor who has lost faith in his government's ability to fight the drug lords.
The camerawork lets viewers ride shotgun with the Autodefensas
vigilante group and its photogenic
leader, José Mireles, on raids, shootouts, interrogations and rallies.
Filmmaker Matthew Heineman risked his life to obtain some extraordinary immersive footage of gun battles with Mexican cartel members in the stricken Michoacán state, where he focuses on the efforts Dr. Jose Mireles, the
leader of the anti-cartel
vigilante group Autodefensas.
Cartel Land follows two fronts of the drug war, but from the perspective of frustrated citizens instead of government officials: Arizona Border Recon head Tim Foley, and Jose Mireles, the
leader of a
vigilante group who fight off cartel gangs from taking over villages.
Told through the lens of two
vigilante group
leaders, Dr. José Manuel Mireles of the Mexican Autodefensas and Tim «Nailer» Foley of the US Cartel Resistance force.
Foley and Mireles are both charismatic and effective
leaders, and even viewers morally opposed to
vigilante justice will find themselves heavily swayed by their arguments.
Batman faces off against a mobster, a hallucinogen - pushing psychiatrist, and the
leader of a covert
vigilante group and finds friends in a young, idealistic detective, a mind - his - own - business R & D guru, and his father - like butler.
Heineman's film focuses primarily on the high - risk activities of two men on either side of the U.S. - Mexico border: American Tim «Nailer» Foley of the paramilitary group Arizona Border Recon, whose members work to disrupt the activities of the Mexican drug scouts and couriers who ply their trade along the border; and José Mireles, a Michoacán physician who, at the time of filming, was the
leader of an equally well - armed Mexican
vigilante group called the Autodefensas, whose mission was to uproot the drug cartels that his country's own law enforcement officers seem unable or unwilling to control.
Actress Alyssa Milano plays Marian,
leader of a
vigilante group in a fight against the gangs.
The rapist turns out to be the
leader of the
vigilante group.