Romper el cerco

2006 · 45 MIN · IMDB 9.1 · 12 VOTES · DIR. Carlos Mendoza, Nicolás Défossé, Mario Viveros

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Overview

Analyzes the events in San Salvador Atenco (Mexico) during the first days of May 2006, and denounces human rights violations of civilians by police forces in Mexico State and Federal. The documentary also disassembled mode of operation of the mass media, responsible for creating a climate of fear and an information blockade around the events in San Salvador Atenco, in the context of a particularly delicate: the process of Mexico presidential succession in 2006.

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00:00:03 Watch, Discuss, and Distribute This Video
00:02:02 If Zapata were alive, he would walk with us!
00:04:41 The communal farmers accompany him on his tour throughout Mexico City.
00:06:11 3:00 PM
00:07:31 ...taken where a police officer has fallen.
00:08:59 They go up to the unconcious police officer and kick his testicles in the most vile.
00:10:45 We got there just as the second one was starting and the police were already advancing towards the first blockade on the highway.
00:12:09 One of them started grabbing my face and they stuck their fingers in my mouth and in my vagina...
00:14:03 And if they are violent, then they are subversive.
00:16:40 Through his spokesperson, Ruben Aguilar, the president of the country denies...
00:18:25 The raids were what we couldn't see. - Let's go, with everything, everyone... - Move it! Move it! Move it!
00:20:54 They were moving very fast. They pushed over this wardrobe with everything in it. They scattered all my things.
00:23:04 "Operation Rescue" was an action carried out by special forces in the "Federal Preventive Police",...
00:25:15 It would seem to give the impression that what they wanted to do was to make a clear demonstration of force...
00:27:31 I start looking to the side and I realize that actually the bodies on my side are almost like corpses, okay?
00:29:40 On May 11th, the "Center for Human Rights 'Miguel Agustin Pro'" released a report documenting the cases of abuse in Atenco.
00:31:24 ...but instead with a group that, I dare say, does not represent the interests of this population. Instead it's a group that,...
00:33:31 ...Support us!...support us!!
00:35:46 Yesterday's regrettable and violent events...
00:37:31 This is Genaro Garcia Luna,...
00:39:53 It was a bullet and not a firecracker that caused the death of young Javier Cortes Santiago,...
00:41:27 We acted to re-establish order and tranquility.
00:43:47 ...criticizing the actions taken against Atenco...
02:00:00 Jose Espinosa Juarez,...

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Lines indexed443
Dialogue density9.8 lines / min
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Production Record

DirectorCarlos Mendoza, Nicolás Défossé, Mario Viveros
LanguageSpanish
IMDb votes12