Netflix Releases Mexican Film About Capture of ‘El Chapo’
The thriller follows two federal police officers who found Guzmán after he escaped through a drainage system and ended his second prison flight.
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Another film about Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán for the lot... although this time with a twist: far from romanticizing the violent capo, it focuses on the cops who captured him and rejected his bribes to let him go.
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Cd. of Mexico.- What would a Mexican who has suffered the violence caused by drug trafficking say to Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán when he had it face to face? The film La Captación, about how the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel was arrested, raised that question in Alfonso Herrera and Noé Hernández. In the film by Chava Cartas, who arrives this Friday in Netflix, the actors interpret the two federal policemen who by chance arrested him in 2016 in Los …
Photo: Courtesy Netflix Netflix premiered on August 21 The capture, a film inspired by one of the most well-known episodes in Mexico’s recent history: the recapture of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán after his escape from the Altiplano prison in 2015. The production does not seek to tell the entire criminal trajectory of the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. Instead, it concentrates his story in the hours following Operation Black Swan, when Guzmán manage…
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