SAVAGES: America's backyard

Three-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone tackles the drug war in

America's backyard

Stone has a terrifying and convincing thesis as to why the film has to be set in America, with American characters: "The point," he says, "is that wars come home, they come home to roost. And there are connections: one of the two main guys has come home from Afghanistan and Iraq, and he's brought all that with him, what I think are new levels of cruelty and combat technology we have out there."

The thriller Savages is in the same brutal, druggy realm of Natural Born Killers, but Stone has evolved in the past decade and a half, and the new film has a deeper, more complicated perspective. The violence isn't a kick. It's horrifying, senseless. Amid the mayhem, you think, "It didn't have to go down this way."   Why does it? Business.

Oliver Stone's film, Savages, with  Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Taylor Kitsch,  Blake Lively ,
Salma Hayek, Benicio del Toro,  John Travolta ,  Demián Bichir...   C A S T
Dirty, Rotten, (Industrialized) ‘Savages’!

Salma Hayek’s Fierceness Is The Only Reason We Will Be Seeing Savages

Hayek had plenty to draw from in the lives of 

Griselda Blanco and the "La Reina del Pacífico" (Sandra Ávila Beltrán).

(Still at large though are such notorious female narcos as Ana Cristina Aguirre Monje)

The film is based on a book with the same name by Don Winslow, but while the book was released to acclaim, the film was released to mixed reviews.  The consensus is that the performances, with the exception of Blake Lively, are riveting. 

"How liberated from an agenda is this movie? 

Savages will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 13, 2012.  

WILL SAVAGES INFORM THE REST OF THE COUNTRY 

ABOUT THIS LITTLE SLICE OF AMERICAN BACKYARD? 

 Are homespun entrepreneurs/Pharma V the Mexican drug cartels coming to a turf near you?  Presidential contender Romney knows what American addicts have known for years, send the uninsured to a nearby hospital emergency room.  Some addicts go bi-weekly and are well known by staff.  "Yes every medic and ER doc knows... "  

Why not ask them?

"Drug addiction should be treated as a potentially fatal illness and not a crime"

Russell Brand

Assassinated

Griselda Blanco, Original Cocaine Kingpin With SoCal Ties, 

Assassinated in Colombia

You're probably asking, What took so long?  Blanco was one of the most murderous drug kingpin's in recorded history, having turned Miami into a city of blood in the late '70s and early '80s before coming to Orange County.

February 15, 1943 ~ September 3, 2012

1.  Gerald Posner (interview) Back in the Limelight In 

Biography Channel's Griselda Blanco Doc.

2.  Cocaine Cowboys  is a 2006 documentary (Official Thread). 

3.  Cocaine Cowboy2

4.  El Colombiano reporting that Griselda Blanco has been murdered in Medellin.

5.  Cocaine 'Godmother' Who Was Proud of Murdering 2-Year-Old Was No Hero.

DRUGS AND THE DRUG WAR ARE BAD FOR WOMEN

Whether a pill popping wife of a Senator or scraping the bottom of a barrel there

is no glamour and lasting win.  Money does help but that is not the reality for most women.

Santa Barbara police arrest the Cook Avenue residents after month-long investigation.

In the most lovely of cities you can hear story after story of women desperate

enough to  prostitute or forced into some form of slave labor.  Their faces meld into a  stereotypical archetype you can recognize as if you knew them.  Age is not their friend. For many of these women their drug addled brains convince them it is love with their captors.  For years Santa Barbara's  family and geriatric physician, Dr. Julio Diaz, 

better known as the "candy man" was in business.  Eleven known fatalities later and  the DEA stepped in.  Dr. Diaz was also known to trade pills for sex in the typical way female addicts become manipulated by anyone they
may meet or in a business association.  It is part of the lifestyle.
Tragically, the drugs take away any sense of self and well being.
There are thousands of these stories.  The few that the "candy man" brings up is a small evident part of these monstrous crimes.

GORE, GUTS AND GONADS they didn't come more treacherous than the

Bad. bad girls

bad girl Francine Gabel Sheriff's Narcotics Detectives Arrest Six in Drug Bust bad, bad boys ~ William Paxson ~ Jerry Boeff ~ Paul Woellert ~ William Konrad ~ 

BAD GIRLS
Live fast, die young
Bad girls do it well
Live fast, die young
Bad girls do it well
My chain hits my chest
When I'm banging on the dashboard
My chain hits my chest
When I'm banging on the radio
Get back, get down
Pull me closer if you think you can hang
Hands up, hands tied
Don't go screaming if I blow you with a bang
Suki Zuki
I'm coming in the Cherokee
Gasoline
There's steam on the window screen
Take it, take it
Wheel's bouncing like a trampoline
When I get to where I'm going, gonna have you trembling
Yeah back it, back it
Yeah pull up to the bumper game

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"They have already completed several jobs," he said. "They have long or short weapons (...) They are accompanied by men and they get out down to do the job. "  

The armed wing of the Juarez drug cartel (La Linea), which operates on the border of Ciudad Juarez and El Paso is recruiting and training dozens of young, pretty women as sicarios (hired assassins), said a captured sicario hired by the criminal organization.

High-risk riches for Mexico's ‘narco wives’

"Cocaine Cowboys"The film explores the rise of cocaine and resulting crime epidemic that swept the American city of Miami, Florida in the 1970s and 1980s. The producers of Cocaine Cowboys use interviews with law enforcement, journalists, lawyers, former drug smugglers and gang members to provide a first hand perspective of the Miami drug war.
Also documented in the film is
the gangland violence associated with the trade. The interviewees in the film argue that Griselda Blanco, an infamous crime family matriarch, played a major role in the history of the drug trade in Miami and other cities across America. It was the lawless and corrupt atmosphere, primarily from Blanco's operations, that led to the gangsters' being dubbed the "Cocaine Cowboys".

                                                            Sandra Ávila Beltrán

                  The Mexican drug cartel queen who got Botox in prison

Beltrán (born 1960, Baja California, Mexico) is a Mexican drug cartel leader, dubbed "La Reina del Pacífico" (The Queen of the Pacific) by the media. She was arrested on September 28, 2007 and charged with organized crime and conspiracy to traffic drugs; Some charges were later dropped but she is still being held for possession of illegal weapons and money laundering, pending her extradition to the U.S.
Mexican and U.S. officials consider she was an important link between the Sinaloa Cartel in
Mexico and the Colombian Norte del Valle Cartel.

Homeland Security, Lieberman, Chaney, McCain, Palin, Tripp

Things that make you go hmmmmm...

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Mexican Drug Wars Documentary part 1
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