{"id":569,"date":"2014-04-04T03:15:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T03:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.wordpress.com\/?p=569"},"modified":"2021-02-22T21:17:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T21:17:17","slug":"mexican-gangstas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/?p=569","title":{"rendered":"Mexican gangstas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tenkmovies.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/mv5bmtu4mtg2mzm1ov5bml5banbnxkftztgwodkzmjixmde__v1_sy317_cr00214317_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-595 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/tenkmovies.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/mv5bmtu4mtg2mzm1ov5bml5banbnxkftztgwodkzmjixmde__v1_sy317_cr00214317_.jpg?w=202\" alt=\"Narco Cultura (2013)\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2504022\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">Narco Cultura<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(2013)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/WORLD\/americas\/03\/13\/mexico.forbes.list\/index.html?_s=PM:WORLD\">In 2009, Forbes magazine listed notorious drug dealer Joaquin Guzman Loera as one of the richest people in the world.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 Mexican officials, including president Felipe Calderon, were outraged, claiming this hampered their ability to combat the drug trade engulfing large sections of Mexico by giving credibility to drug traffickers. This documentary places\u00a0Forbes&#8217; decision to include Guzman Loera as\u00a0part of a cultural shift legitimizing the business of illegal narcotics.<\/p>\n<p>As more and more Mexicans watch their friends and neighbors escape the prison of poverty by dealing drugs, the stigma of illegal narcotics has faded and morphed into idolization of Mexican drug lords who are cast as heroes instead of the murderers\u00a0they are.<\/p>\n<p>This documentary traces the rise of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Narcocorrido\">narcocorrido<\/a>, a musical genre dedicated to romanticizing the drug lord lifestyle, in Mexico and parts of the southwestern United States.<\/p>\n<p>The film doesn&#8217;t explicitly say so, but many music critics have compared the music glorifying drug traffickers in Mexico\u00a0to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gangsta_rap\">gangsta rap<\/a> which celebrates violence in African-American\u00a0communities, since both are born out of anger at perceived racial injustice, both real and exaggerated.<\/p>\n<p>This is a frightening and disturbing movie, which sheds light on another failure of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/War_on_Drugs\">war on drugs<\/a>.\u00a0 Not only is it failing\u00a0to stop the actual production and sale of illegal narcotics, but the continuing pursuit of\u00a0drug organizations\u00a0has created sympathy for these criminals and enforcement organizations are in the midst of a losing public relations campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Narco Cultura\u00a0(2013) In 2009, Forbes magazine listed notorious drug dealer Joaquin Guzman Loera as one of the richest people in the world.\u00a0\u00a0 Mexican officials, including president Felipe Calderon, were outraged, claiming this hampered their ability to combat the drug trade engulfing large sections of Mexico by giving credibility to drug traffickers. This documentary places\u00a0Forbes&#8217;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/?p=569\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mexican gangstas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[231,527],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-progress","tag-documentary","tag-mexican-cinema","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11662,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/11662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}