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

Been fighting extradition from Mexico since 2007

'Queen of the Pacific' 

Mexican officials extradited the suspected drug trafficker known as the 'Queen of the Pacific' to the United States on Thursday.

Sandra Avila Beltran was handed over at the Toluca airport outside Mexico City to U.S. Marshals who took her to Miami to face federal cocaine-trafficking charges, the attorney general's office said.

She told the cops she was just an innocent housewife

 who dabbled a little in the rental market.

  

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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.

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Things that make you go hmmmmm...

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