Film 'Narco Cultura' Takes a Blood-Soaked Look at Mexico's War on Drugs Kate Kilpatrick - Al Jazeera
go to original December 11, 2013

Narco Cultura Official Trailer (FilmFestivalVideos)

The members of Los Buknas de Culiacán are strapped with various instruments: an accordion, a Mexican guitar, a tuba, and a bazooka.  Wearing a gold satin shirt under his custom-embroidered suit, lead singer Edgar Quintero has the El Paso crowd singing along to his catchy tune: “With an AK-47 and a bazooka on my shoulder / Cross my path and I’ll chop your head off / We’re bloodthirsty, crazy and we like to kill.”

Welcome to narco culture 2.0 — the same culture that celebrates narco-saint Jesús Malverde, favors gold-plated and diamond-encrusted .50-caliber guns, and prays to the “holy death” skeleton Santa Muerte — where old-time gangsters have turned into bloodthirsty psychopaths.

Shaul Schwarz, an Israeli war photographer, holds a mirror up to Los Buknas de Culiacán and the wider tragicomedy that is Mexican drug culture in “Narco Cultura,” a cinema-verité documentary .

Showing the binational relationship at the heart of the so-called Mexican drug war (Schwarz prefers to call it the “American-Mexican drug war”), his camera follows two men on opposite sides of the border.

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