Interviews from Mexico - Cinema and the War on Drugs
Today's edition of Interviews from Mexico looks at the war on drugs as portrayed in Mexican cinema. Host Laura Carlsen interviews film director Bernardo Ruiz, whose latest production, Kingdom of Shadows, considers the human face of the war on drugs through the three individual stories, of a human rights activist, a former drug smuggler, and a retired undercover U.S. federal agent. Ruiz discusses what he hoped to accomplish with the film and the various facets of the war on drugs. teleSUR