El cartel Page #3

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
230 Views


(baby crying)

I took his life.

What?

Off the record...

it still Angers my wife.

#

Papa!

(gunshot)

He suggested

I kill my father.

There was only one way

I could live with such guilt.

(grunting)

To be fair, he was right.

It was good advice.

Now, you will excuse me.

Tsk! Tsk!

I have some business

to attend to.

That's all right,

we're done for today anyway.

We will continue this

afternoon, after I return.

We can do that.

Just give me a call.

Here's the number

to the hotel.

A hotel?

No, you and

your friends,

you stay with my family,

in my house.

That's not necessary.

But it is.

I will return shortly.

In the meantime, relax,

enjoy the Mexican sun.

When my wife and children

have tired of the beach,

they will see you

back to the house.

Thanks.

#

16 billion.

Not pesos,

but dollars?

Si.

What's your gross?

Mucho.

Go ahead, feed him

your leftovers,

he'll love you forever.

16 billion dollars.

You have a wonderful home,

but I wouldn't have guessed

that you were so...

Blessed?

We live simply.

Comfortably, for sure.

But not the life of your

typical billionaire.

It's constraint

which keeps me from

sharing the fate

of Pablo Escobar.

And generosity.

Many hospitals and schools

carry my husband's name.

We have many legitimate

business ventures --

Casinos, strip clubs,

brothels, smoke shops,

even a chain of liquor stores.

An outsider would think

our portfolio quite diverse.

You're not that diverse.

Well, it depends on your

definition of business,

but I'd say you're

wholesale distributors

of debauchery and sin.

And no one does it better.

Did you know, that of

the 20 known plants

that produce cocaine,

only two produce enough

to justify commercial

cultivation?

We grow neither.

You will never

taste a better flan.

It's why I hired him.

Gracias.

De nada.

You were saying something

about production?

Yes...of the product

we export into...

...we produce none of it.

We import our supply from

Columbia, Bolivia, Peru.

To put it simply, our passion

does not lie in manufacturing,

but in creating and maintaining

a system of distribution.

Tomorrow I will show you.

(goats whining)

Livestock wasn't

on the list.

(gunshot)

You know, my product

is one of the world's

only tried and proven

aphrodisiacs?

But I do not suggest using it

to enhance your lovemaking.

The truth is,

it suppresses the sex drive.

Do you know why?

Because it's actually more

pleasurable than having sex.

#

You will never

taste a better flan.

(laughing)

Not livestock...

distribution.

We add cobalt

and ferric chloride

to mask the smell

from the dogs.

A long way from

birds and slingshots.

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