Narco Cultura Page #2

here.

This is the "Movimiento

Alterado".

Straight out of Sinaloa.

Sending reinforcements to decapitate El

Macho leads wearing a bulletproof vest.

Bazooka in hand with experience

Wearing grenades, death is within.

Tvviins Culiacn.

...the girls take off their clothes a

private party like you can't imagine!

Hit it! Hit it!

If there wasn't so much violence in Mexico,

we wouldn't have such badass corridos.

And that's reflected in the

Movimento Alterado.

This is the first time all of the Movimiento

Alterado bands are here on Sunset.

In Hollywood, with all the

celebrities.

We do it in L.A. because it's

very powerful

to give birth to new musical

movements, artistic movements.

We upgraded to The House of

Blues now.

...a new Mexican-American

culture.

All this culture is being mixed

together.

People have come here from all

oven.

It's so cool to see regular

people...

They go to a club, and they feel

narco for that night, you know?

Komander, Komander!

Komander how are you?

Is this the first step to

Hollywood'?

Let's hope, let's hope!

We're going to see a series of

great artists...

a huge lineup of 22 artists.

You said you were going to

arrive at 11 am.

I was waiting here with the

weed.

This is a musical movement from

Los Angeles

but really it comes from

Sinaloa.

And so it's an honor to present,

straight out of Culiacn, Sinaloa...

my main man, Komander.

- Great corrido.

- Yeah you like it'?

My mom listens to it. She says,

"it reminds me of you!"

Yeah I wrote that in Durango.

Badass, dude.

Oh you wrote it there'?

He's started playing the

accordion.

One day you can be like me!

Who wants corridos?

One, two, three... BuKnas!

Take a bite out of crime!

People are very drunk, very

hyped up.

Often people have already taken

drugs.

There are fights in eight out

of every ten shows we do.

You always hear these narco corridos

over the police frequencies.

After we hear a narco corrido, it

means there's been an execution.

Thanks, we'll be right there.

Never come around here. And

now they drive by twice. Why?

They were scouting ahead,

working for the bad guys.

They're all the same guys.

I don't understand why

there are so many police here.

They should go and catch the

criminal.

The federales stop people,

but then just let them go.

And the local cops abuse their power.

They're bullies.

It's their fault so many

innocent people die.

Just now five or six people

were killed.

Including workers, clients

and supposedly a police officer

too.

Nice Christmas.

Sometimes you ask yourself,

"Did I mess up?"

"Was there something I didn't

do right?"

Some people even say...

"You guys are just bullet

collectors. "

It's sad when people don't

value your work.

The truth is

there are many deaths that...

that sometimes...

it gets frustrating.

As a crime investigator, I play

my part in the system.

He was watching the news.

And I asked, "What happened

son?"

- He grabbed his face.

- "What happened son?"

A colleague.

- "What happened?"

- They killed him.

Now Richi doesn't go out.

He doesn't go have a drink, go for a walk.

He doesn't leave.

He comes from work to home

eats and sleeps

and then goes back to work.

When he leaves in the morning, I

don't know if he'll come back.

Sometimes I wish that you would

leave that job.

Why don't you quit my son'?

Why not'? Give me an

explanation'?

There is no other work.

And it's my career.

But last week, you lost one of

your colleagues?

Sometimes I worry so much, you

have no idea.

But like Richi said, it's his

work, it's his career.

If he leaves his job, what will

he do for work?

All the small businesses are

closed or closing.

And those that aren't closing

are paying extortion money.

What if you get married and go

to El Paso'?

If he gets a good job there,

we'll all go with him!

This is my house.

I was born and raised here.

I've lived here for 34 years.

This has always been my room.

My own space.

Here it's just me.

This is where I laugh, this is

where I cry, all of it.

Yes my son.

Be really careful okay'?

Bye son, God bless.

Richi doesn't want to leave his

work.

But the higher he gets promoted

the more danger he's in.

And he tells me "Mom, at 6pm

lock yourself in. "

Unless you see that they're customers,

don't open the door for anyone.

These young guys come in...

They come in with little papers like

this, and they leave you a phone number.

And you say, "What is this'?

What do you want?"

They say, "Call this number, I

don't know anything. "

You're afraid and don't know what to do.

But you have to call.

They tell you they'll come by

to charge a certain amount.

- But why'? I don't have very much...

- I already told you.

If not, close your store.

We'll burn this place down.

What can we do'?

OPEN:

- Joaquin, you okay'?

- You got hit by the ricochet'?

Calm down, my love.

A gun shot!

Another!

It's all taken care of.

Where to now, boss'?

We run the risk that this

f***er will tell his friends.

Cut it.

Okay, out.

This is how movies need to be

made, stupid.

He's here! It's the actor from

"El Baleado"!

Take eight, camera two.

Action!

You're dead!

Cut.

Everyone listens to narco

corridos.

I don't think there's anyone

who doesn't like them.

I would like to be the

girlfriend of a narco

because it's a way of life, not

anything bad.

Well, okay, it is something

bad, but it's a way of life.

It's been coming for years, in

our Mexico.

It's something that's a culture

for us.

Where are you playing now, at

the Nokia theater'?

Yeah man.

Sold out, dude.

Arriba Los Angeles!

...I've got so much to learn!

I need more words, more slang.

You should send me to Mexico to live

there for six months or something.

If you're born here, you don't have the

same vocabulary as someone from Mexico.

I have to get my information

from YouTube and the Internet.

All Komander has to do is walk

outside.

For that reason I've always wanted to

go to Culiacn, to write more corridos.

How are you my son?

I'm good grandma, thanks.

You've been dancing!

I was thinking today...

I just could not have met a

better woman than you.

No, I'm serious.

Awww, love!

I kill at a very early age.

That's why I live so

traumatized

then to get over the trauma, I

go get into a fight.

Now nobody can catch me.

They'll say "He has flown

away. "

...with his AK-47 at his side.

We are getting to work...

I don't like his voice.

He has a good tone, but the

Gordito Chaparrito is better.

Yeah, why couldn't he come?

In the mafia he is known

as M1 by his friends.

Active collaborator.

My girlfriend and I have

plans...

to live over there in the

United States, in El Paso.

She feels more at peace there.

She doesn't want to live in Juarez

because of the insecurity and danger.

We have to think about the safety of our

kids when we have a family one day.

It would be a major change.

After you cross the bridge,

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