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83) Traffic
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English
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Presents a mix of interrelated stories: a Mexican policeman finds himself and his partner caught in an often deadly web of corruption; a pair of DEA agents work undercover in a sordid and dangerous part of San Diego; a wealthy drug baron living in upscale, suburban America is arrested and learns how quickly his unknowing and pampered wife takes over his business; and the U.S. President's new drug czar must deal with his increasingly drug-addicted...
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With California and the rest of the country going bankrupt, one business is booming. The story of the growing medical marijuana industry, focusing on Los Angeles with over 700 legal dispensaries doling out the buds. Following the story of Organica, a southland dispensary which was raided by state and federal agencies in August of 2009, this film shows that although much has changed with Obama in office, the drug war is nowhere near over.
88) Traffic
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Criterion collection volume 151
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English
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Traffic is a mural of a war being fought and lost. In a culture devoted to instant gratification and the quick fix, it poses unanswerable questions about greed, corruption, economic inequity, pleasure, self-medication, dependency, and addiction. The stories of a well-meaning politician with a wayward daughter, a rich suburban homemaker who sees her comfortable life hijacked by two earnest DEA agents, and a conscientious and honorable Mexican police...
90) Red border: 1
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Red border volume 1
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English
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A young Mexican couple narrowly escapes the Juarez Cartel by fleeing across the border into Texas, only to be run down in the desert by the Cartel's most brutal thugs. Rescued by a mysterious local who takes them to the safety of his family's ranch, the couple soon realize their hosts have more than just skeletons in their closet. Trapped in a house of horrors beyond their wildest imagination, the army of assassins on their trail might be the least...
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English
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In 15-years the Black Mafia Family, or BMF as they were called, made close to 300 million dollars trafficking cocaine from Atlanta to Los Angeles. In the Hip-Hop music industry they created a front company called BMF Entertainment, which was a perfect mix of drugs, violence, and street cred that makes their story Hip-Hop's version of the Godfather.
93) Trained to hunt
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Series
Pierce Hunt novels volume 2
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English
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"He'll hunt the through the jungle, across the desert, and into the grave. Former Army Ranger Pierce Hunt is second-guessing his decision to join a CIA hunter-killer team that will take him far away from his daughter. But when a new performance-enhancing drug kills four football players--including his daughter's boyfriend--settling down becomes the last thing on Hunt's mind. When Anna Garcia, Hunt's love and head of the largest drug cartel in Miami,...
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"In 1979, Wisconsin native Tim McBride hopped into his Mustang and headed south. He was twenty-one, and his best friend had offered him a job working as a crab fisherman in Chokoloskee Island, a town of fewer than 500 people on Florida's Gulf Coast. Easy of disposition and eager to experience life at its richest, McBride jumped in with both feet. But this wasn't a typical fishing outfit. McBride had been unwittingly recruited into a band of smugglers--middlemen...
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Español
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"La guerra contra el narco, la alternancia en los gobiernos de México y Estados Unidos, la captura y extradición de capos, la atomización de cárteles, el surgimiento de nuevos líderes, las fluctuaciones del mercado nacional e internacional y la evolución en el tráfico y consumo de estupefacientes han creado un nuevo México, que atraviesa la mayor crisis de violencia en 80 años. Ylas estrategias gubernamentales la empeoran: los abrazos en...
98) Meth storm
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English
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In Arkansas, 90% of methamphetamines are smuggled over the border from Mexico as a strain of stronger and cheaper crystal meth called ICE. Meth Storm tells the story of rural, economically disadvantaged users and dealers whose addiction to ICE and lack of job opportunities have landed them on an endless cycle of poverty and incarceration - and of the police and DEA agents struggling to stop cartels from flooding the U.S. with this super-potent form...
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"In season three, National Geographic's critically acclaimed series Border Wars goes even deeper inside the struggles of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents and officers as they fight an escalating drug-smuggling crisis fueled by big money, cartel rivalries and violence threatening to cross into our cities."--Container.
100) El Rey = =: The King
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Español
Description
Este video presenta un cuento ficticioso basado en la vida de un narcotraficante de cocaína colombiano, Jaime Caicedo, aquí conocido como Pedro Rey. "El Rey" comienza como un pequeño negociante, consiguiendo la cooperación de un químico, un voluntario del Cuerpo de Paz y otras personas en su plan de exportar la cocaína a Estados Unidos. Este negocio llega a ser un imperio de enorme riqueza con todos sus peligros.
The fictional story of the...