El Norte - Parte I

This movie is still without a doubt one of the best made about illegal immigration and specifically the push of refugees fleeing the violence in Central America. This movie is about hopes and aspirations of immigrants coming to the United States.

Specifically, it deals with Guatemala where many indigenous people were killed by the military regimes in power there in the 1970s and 1980s. Many of the participants in the genocide have not been brought to justice and any recriminations are still met with violence.

I remember watching it on PBS and in class during the 1980s. My final upload will be personal commentary on it looking back from 2008.

Category:

Education

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• el
• norte
• guatemala
• immigration
• illegal
• massacre
• geniocide
• indian
• indigena
• border
• frontera
• war
• guerra

[Guatemalasociety]

Nava had to film much of this movie in Mexico because Guatemala was still ruled by the same CIA-orchestrated military dictatorship that led Arturo Xuncax and his family to their deaths and that left Enrique broken and disillusioned in the end. The border is officially "militarized" now, and the journey remains as awful and degrading as a long crawl through a rat-filled tunnel to life that may be no greater than the one they left.

[Graffitti74]

@chuyuy10 You're right. It's much more exciting to wear tights, "grab and tackle" other guys and slap each others ass after a good play than watch a movie.

[KABLE999]

@wbprods

and i want to make something clear! when i say wetback...i mean the white man period! i am not talking about my brothers and sisters of mexico..or the nations in canada! mexicans are healing from the invasion as well and we will all survive without the help of the white man!

[wbprods]

@KABLE999 Thanks for your response. I do know that you have been kicked out of you own lands by the white invasion, the same invader that did not understood you. No, i cannot understand your pain, but younger generations are openning their eyes little by little and removing the lies thaught to them by their own people.The pain and suffering your people have experienced won't diseaper overnight. Cape Diem.

[KABLE999]

@wbprods

im an apache...and all indigenous people can survive without you white demons...we did it before, we still do it now and we will do it again! and im talking for my brothers and sisters of this continent.....i dont need you to survive... we tried that and we almost became extinct fucktard!

[wbprods]

@KABLE999 Dear friend, I believe that economicaly, many parts of your large country depends on what you call "wetback". Florida, Texas, Arizona...and so on. Many american kids from those regions would not have parents that could be able to send them to school without the input of "wetback". It's like an ecosystem (do you know this word?), where everyone need each other to survive. Have great life.

[KABLE999]

@Keletho

fuck you white wetback!

[ruben00750]

gracias por subir a you tube esta pelicula, yo la vi hace 15 años y la considero una verdadera obra de arte, como dato curioso el actor que hace el papel de enrrique, en mexico es conocido como comediante y no como actor.

[MyLifeAsZoe]

*watched

[MyLifeAsZoe]

i think every spanish class has watch this movie, i know mine did.

[tprgentil91]

Hace un chico rato, mi clase de ingles y yo acabamos de ver esta peli y pues la verdad que le doy muchas gracias a Dios de haber nacido en Estados Unidos porque la verdad que a como se sufre para llegar a este pais aveces! Lo digo porque he visto a muchas personas que llegan a este pais y tienen que trabajar muy duro para tener al menos el estandar basico de vida aqui :/

[MrPau18]

veo muchos actores mexicanos en esta movie ****no more civil wars  in central america !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!