Documentary “Cartel Land”

 

The specific scene that got to me was when they were talking about the cartel killing 13 people from a family and another two people just because the boss of the factory screwed over the cartel and punished him by killing all his workers, including babies, kids, teenagers, and the parents. This really made me upset because those are people and other people really cared about them, it also made me very angry because the cartels kill and don’t care about anyone else but themselves. They’d do brutal things to the children just to kill them but they’re innocent which breaks my heart.

It really surprised me in the end when they arrested Mireles the original leader of the group the autodefensa’s because I agree for what he stood for and the vigilante group joining the government could be limited. The government didn’t do much in the first place to get the cartels out. He got in trouble because he disagreed with the group which is wrong to me. 

Did they end up catching the cartel members inside of the autodefensa? Some feelings that stuck were anger because I can’t do anything to help. And yes I’m keeping some triggering from my summary because they’re really gruesome and I don’t like rethinking it again.