Thin Line Film Fest - Drug Wars: Silver Or Lead

Gary A. "Rusty" Fleming 2008

Run time: 82 min. | U S A

Narco-terrorists and paramilitary groups are operating unabated, kidnappings are taking place at an unprecedented level, and last year alone they killed over 2,000 men, women and children. They post videos on the internet of torture and executions to generate fear for anyone who opposes them. They have assassinated journalists, lawyers, policemen and judges, and recently have taken up the practice of beheading many of their victims. This isnt Iraq or the Middle East, nor South America. These under-reported events are taking place in cities all across the U.S./Mexico border where cartels have dramatically affected the social order inside the country. In Nuevo Laredo, for example, they own that city but their cell-based operations can reach anywhere in the U.S., where massive amounts of illegal drugs are consumed. Filmmaker Rusty Fleming spent three years going behind the headlines, using the voices of the victims, politicians, frustrated border sheriffs, experts and some of the most powerful terrorists on earth to make a documentary more frightening than any fiction.

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