This mile-a-minute documentary records the mayhem of Mexico's drug war, as bullets fly and law and order collapse. Gun-slinging criminals come face to face with 40000 soldiers and we're on the ground to see it all. Dead bodies, gangsters with state-of-the-art weapons and out-of-control soldiers populate the scenes in this action packed thriller. "Right now we have 11000 guns," General Duarte Mugica tells us as he stands between the racks of rifles and machine guns confiscated from the Mafia. "With these you can arm 2-3 battalions of 500." But this is just the tip of the iceberg of the extraordinary arsenal these gangsters have at their disposal. Mexico may not officially be at war, but since 2006, when President Felipe Calderon an all out campaign against the cartels, the most extraordinary civil war has been tearing up the streets. "This isn't Iraq, what's going on?" Says Gema Lopez professor of sociology, echoing the feeling of the people of Tijuana who now see dead bodies in the street daily. "They found three people decapitated. No arms, cut to pieces." One man in the street tells us, after a running battle between soldiers and Mafia rumbled through his area. Tijuana has had problems with the drug business for decades, but never violence on this level. A lot of it has to do with the famous Arellano Felix family who dominate organized crime in Tijuana. As Roberto, an ex-hit man for the Arellano tells us, the new generation is different. "Before you didn't see such ...
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