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Al Otro Lado (To the Other Side)

Mexico • 1h 6m

Directed by Natalia Almada • Documentary • 2005 • 70 minutes

The proud Mexican tradition of corrido music—captured in the performances of Mexican band Los Tigres del Norte and the late Chalino Sanchez—provides both heartbeat and backbone to this rich examination of songs, drugs and dreams along the U.S./Mexico border. Al Otro Lado follows Magdiel, an aspiring corrido composer from the drug capital of Mexico, as he faces two difficult choices to better his life: to traffic drugs or to cross the border illegally into the United States.

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al otro lado (to the other side), americas, anthropology and archaeology, area studies, art and architecture, artists, border, business, corrido music, cultural and ethnic studies, cultural anthropology, drug smuggling, drug trafficking, economic anthropology, expository, geography, human geography, icarus films, illegal immigration, immigration, immigration and refugees, labor and economics, labor studies, latin american studies, latinx studies, mexico, migration, music, musician, musicians, ovid, performing arts, social issues, social studies, the, trafficking, united states, working conditions, world regions

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