I Witness Page #5

Synopsis: Jim Rhodes is a human rights worker in Tijuana for a few days to make sure that union elections are fair at a maquiladora owned by a U.S. corporation. In quick succession, the police assault the strikers, the bodies of 27 peasants turn up in an abandoned tunnel that has caved in, and two U.S. teen bikers are missing. As Rhodes pokes around and speculates on connections among these events, he's beaten up, warned off by a drug dealer's attorney, and given varying degrees of help by the U.S. State Department rep, the U.S. Trade rep, and an honest local cop. It's always about money, but whose is at stake and how cheap is Rhodes's life?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Rowdy Herrington
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.8
R
Year:
2003
95 min
291 Views


Have a good day, Detective.

Pedro...

Carmen, you trying

to seduce me?

James, I think you need

to talk to these men.

They've been working in the north

and they came home and they found...

their village deserted. They say

their families have been disappeared.

How many?

Twenty-seven.

Mr. Rhodes. Can you confirm that

twenty-seven peasants were...

buried alive by the drug cartel

in one of their drug tunnels?

The actual perpetrators

are still unknown to us.

What can you say about men who

commit such atrocities?

- What can be done?

- Cut 'em out like a cancer.

They're a disgrace to Mexico.

- Do they know who built the tunnel?

- Yeah. Francisco Valdon.

- Mr, Rhodes,

- Douglas!

Can you tell us who's behind

this terrible massacre,,,

- of innocent campesinos?

- Yeah, Francisco Valdon,

Valdon Cartel,

What can we do?

Cut 'em out like a cancer,

They're a disgrace to Mexico,

International Rights Watch has

named the Valdon Cartel,,,

as the perpetrator

of this savage mass murder,

Police investigators

will now try...

Doesn't he know where he is?

One of these days they're gonna

find his head in a box.

Well he's really brave

or really stupid.

- He's both.

- I thought you didn't like him.

You know he used to work

in the State Department?

- He did?

- He was very good.

Better than me.

- A little less diplomatic.

- Why did he quit?

I don't know. He got angry one day

and he's been angry ever since.

What the hell.

Fingered Valdon for us.

Now if he gets whacked,

Valdon looks even guiltier.

God you can be callous, Douglas.

I'm just honest. Don't mistake

it for insensitivity.

No, thank you. I've...

got a lot of work to do.

- Lost Ms. Thompson?

- I wanted to see...

if you were still alive

after that interview.

- Here I am. Disappointed?

- Look I'm sorry about this morning.

I was out of line. I'm under...

a little pressure...

to make sure

this thing goes smoothly.

L- I wanna start over.

I come bearing an olive branch.

- What's this?

- That's an official letter...

from Daxmoore to its employees.

Anyone caught harassing...

union organizers will be terminated.

They've also agreed to start

an internal investigation...

to find out who assaulted you.

What?

Ah, promises are just words,

Ms. Thompson. Words are just wind.

- You don't get it, do you?

- Sure I do.

You're the one who doesn't get it.

This photo was taken at the riot.

That's the guy who attacked us.

He's the night foreman...

at Daxmoore, his name's Zato.

Daxmoore is pullin'...

the strings on this,

you can count on it.

Mr. Rhodes, Daxmoore cannot

control all of its employees.

They've worked long and hard along

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