Episode 290: The Beast
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The Drug World Debate in Mexico
In Suicario, Benicio El Toro plays a State Department agent who works with the CIA. The film is set in Juarez and features scenes of drug dealing on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. "It's just an astonishing moment, right? Because something is done in that movie that installs this idea of Latin America as this emptiness of lawlessness," he says.
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