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The first is Riccardo Soto, an embattled forensics detective who dutifully amasses evidence from these sensationally horrific gangland crimes only to almost never see the evidence heвЂ™s provided produce anything resembling justice.

Fog of war band movie#

The movie deftly juxtaposes these worlds by taking us into the lives of two men.

These are the places that Shaul Schwarz, an Israeli-born photojournalist turned documentary filmmaker, visits in his stunning Narco Cultura, a magisterial look at the conflict from a series of surprising angles. Meanwhile, just across the Rio Grande is El Paso, Texas, a quietly gentrifying border town where illegals seek service-industry work and the crime from across the river seems much farther than mere miles. In an increasingly violent country, Juarez is the most murderous city - over 4,500 killings since 2006 alone - and also the central base for some of MexicoвЂ™s most ruthless and ambitious cartels. With over 60,000 known murders in the country directly tied to the drug trade since then, what good is this war doing, one is tempted to ask? The Federal Police and the Mexican militaryвЂ™s joint operation, Michoacan, has proven toothless in its attempt to stop either the flow of dope through Mexico or the violence that surrounds this insatiably lucrative business. Narco Cultura, Shaul Schwarz, Sundance Film FestivalДЄ war on drugs, or specifically on the drug cartels that profit from them, a war separate from the 40-year-old campaign waged by the United States (though, of course, intricately tied to it) was declared by the Mexican government in 2006.