El cartel Page #2

Synopsis: Mexico's most notorious drug lord schools a naïve journalist as to the principles behind The Cartel's success.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Brian J. Bagley
Production: Gravitas
 
IMDB:
5.7
Year:
2009
87 min
227 Views


Oh, she's, she's good.

When she was a little girl,

I would bring her here,

to this beach.

She was an angel.

You are a good husband?

From what she tells me, yeah.

She's happy.

Good.

Oh, jeez...

I burn easy.

Thanks.

So...how will this work?

Pretty simple.

I'll ask a question,

you answer.

If you want something

off the record,

just say, off the record, okay?

You get to view the piece

before I publish,

so if you want to make

a change, that's okay, too.

We'll take out

whatever you want.

That one.

Okay, then...

How'd you get your start?

My start?

How do you get involved

in drug trafficking?

That...that is a very

complicated question.

#

Angelito!

Que paso, mi hijo?

Is your father alive?

Yeah.

Are you close?

Yeah, we're close.

Then you are lucky.

My father...

...was a great man.

He was a simple

fisherman, but very wise.

Always pay attention to

the advice of your father.

One day, I ask him

what to do with my life.

I hoped he would say,

be a fisherman.

I wanted him to say this,

because we could work

together on the boats.

You know what he told me?

He said...

...I was so disappointed.

But then, he said something

I will never forget.

He said not to worry

about what to do.

Instead, he told me to work

hard, to surround myself

with people who

share my principles.

He sounds very special.

He was.

I loved and respected my father.

I miss him very much.

People, Jules,

it all starts with people.

What if you had to choose

a different career,

what would you have done?

Had I not

organized the Cartel?

Yeah.

That is easy, I would

have become a priest.

(congregation singing)

#

Do not be surprised.

I was following the row

God had planted me.

I wanted her from that

first day in the church.

To this day, people think it was

the money that led me to him.

It was his daughter.

#

We convinced him to

give us the opportunity

to prove ourselves.

We told him we would

run his drugs.

But for myself and Santos,

they were all caught.

It was a game of numbers.

Don Amilkar threw

product at the border

knowing some would get through.

The man lost 90 percent

of his product

because he did not think.

How'd you win his approval?

We presented him the

opportunity of a lifetime.

We gave him new ways

to run his drugs.

So that's how you do it?

No, that was the first

of many attempts

to build a better mousetrap.

Like the birds, most went wrong.

What was wrong

with the birds?

(shotgun blasting)

So it was back to

the drawing board.

#

We even made his old

ways more efficient.

And so exactly a year after

that day in the church,

I married his daughter.

(cheers and applause)

I gave him grandchildren.

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