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Narcos in Paradise: Los Cabos, Where Millionaires and Mexican Cartels Collide
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Narcos in Paradise: Los Cabos, Where Millionaires and Mexican Cartels Collide

53 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Cabo San Lucas sells itself as a millionaire's playground, yet it also sits on a smuggling corridor that cartels use to bridge production zones with the American market, and the city regularly ranks among the world's most dangerous. Filmed over several weeks, the documentary follows the people its two economies attract. Bill, an American multimillionaire, competes in the region's biggest sport fishing tournament. Adrien and Alexander, two young French entrepreneurs, run a fine wine business catering to the resort crowd. Alongside them, the film gets access to cartel members who now operate with more discretion than they did a few years ago, avoiding the open killings that once drew headlines even as unexplained disappearances climb. The contrast is the point: sunburned tourists checking into beachfront hotels a few miles from a trafficking route, and a murder rate that has quietly been replaced by a rising count of people who simply vanish. Interviews and on-location footage carry the story rather than narration alone.