Juarez: City of Dreams| 41mins
Director: Alex Tweddle | Producer: Alex Tweddle
Focus Years: 2008 | Country: United Kingdom
Synopsis:
Situated across the Rio Grande from the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas, Ciudad Juarez is one of the largest border towns on earth with one million desperately poor and maligned inhabitants. Documentary film-maker Alex Tweddle and cameraman James Buck travel through the city to find out why people flock to Juarez, and what life is like for those living in the most dangerous and violent city in the Americas, if not the word. They say "If Juarez is a city of God, it's only because the Devil is scared to come here." People flock to the city daily from inland Mexico, but why so many? Is it to work in the poorly-paid U.S.-based factories, or maquiladoras as they are locally known? To illegally cross the border into the U.S. in search of the American dream? To traffic drugs for the Juarez cartel, one of Mexico’s most powerful drug gangs which is fighting to control the plazas and corridors of narcotics flowing into the U.S.; or maybe, it’s just to murder!
Juarez: City of Dreams
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41mins
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