Documents the pop culture influence of drug cartels on both sides of the United States-Mexican border, focusing on a crime scene investigator in Juâarez and a Mexican pop musician living in Los Angeles.
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"To a growing number of Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, narco-traffickers have become iconic outlaws, glorified by musicians who praise their new models of fame and success. To this new constituency, they represent a pathway out of the ghetto, nurturing a new American dream fueled by an addiction to money, drugs and violence. NARCO CULTURA is an explosive look at the drug cartels’ pop culture influence on both sides of the border as seen through the eyes of an LA narcocorrido singer reaming of stardom and a Juarez crime scene investigator on the front line of Mexico’s drug war."
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