Cartel Land poster
Director Matthew Heineman

Cartel Land

Release Date: 2015-07-03

Duration: 100 minutes

Synopsis

In the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as "El Doctor," shepherds a citizen uprising against the Knights Templar, the violent drug cartel that has wreaked havoc on the region for years. Meanwhile, in Arizona's Altar Valley—a narrow, 52-mile-long desert corridor known as Cocaine Alley—Tim "Nailer" Foley, an American veteran, heads a small paramilitary group called Arizona Border Recon, whose goal is to halt Mexico’s drug wars from seeping across our border.

Casting

  • José Manuel Mireles Valverde
    Himself
  • Chaneque
    Self - drug cartel thug
  • Enrique Peña Nieto
    Self
  • Tim Nailer Foley
    Self (as Tim 'Nailer' Foley)
  • Ana Valencia
    Self - Manuel Mireles' wife
  • Paco Valenciano
    Self - Autodefensas Comandante
  • Caballo
    Self - drug cartel thug
  • Estanislao Beltránin
    Self - spokesman, Autodefensas
  • Alfredo Castillo Cervantes
    Self - Mexican political (as Alfredo Castillo)
  • Robert Hetrick
    Himself