Guided Reflection
During the beginning of the movie a group of civilians in Mexico took arms against the cartel who was kidnapping and killing the innocent civilians. This group of civilians went to other towns and protected the people in the town. The Mexican government came and stole the weapons from the civilian but the townspeople screamed and yelled to give them their weapons back because the government wasn't protecting them at all. So that's exactly what they did, but they didn't leave without telling the rebellious citizens that if they break the law then they will be paying for their actions. This surprised me that the government would allow the civilians to take the matter into their own hands without any consequences. And how could they just leave so fast without helping their citizens. It's their duty to take care of their people, how could they abandon them so easily? Some of the movie just didn't make sense. The laws in Mexico just aren't the same as in the United States and the documentary did a really good job showing these differences by including the perspective of an American soldier who worked on border control
These people acted like cops and arrested leaders of the cartel, plus they could use any force that they wanted to which included beating up their prisoners. This was very shocking to me because that can't happen in the US, but in mexico their is no consequences. One "cop" arrested the guy that killed his uncle and his brothers so he just threw him on the ground handcuffed him and beat him up.
Some questions that remained after watching the film was what happened to the agency after they teamed up with the government? Do they still do the same operations to capture people from the cartel? Did they leave some of the film out from their missions because of legal matters?
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