With her comfortable world threatened, Helen hires Frankie Flowers to remove Ruiz. The 1914 hotel closed in 2002 and was demolished in 2006 to make way for a courthouse extension. Husband Carlos Ayala is standing trial at the Hall of Justice, 330 West Broadway, downtown San Diego, while crucial witness Ruiz ( Miguel Ferrer) is kept secure, across the street, in the Hotel San Diego, 339 West Broadway. The Ayala house is north of San Diego, at 7757 Whitefield Place, a short cul-de-sac off Soledad Avenue on the coast at La Jolla (the house, which fronts directly onto the street, was given a false front yard). In the San Diego section, Helen and her society friends twitter over the duck salad at the Rancho Bernardo Inn, 17550 Bernardo Oaks Drive. In 1996, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places to preserve the remaining agricultural workers’ barracks. Scheduled to close in 1929, the Depression era kept it in use for many more years. Originally called the El Paso Poor Farm, Rio Vista Farm was opened in 1915 to aid the indigent population. General Salazar’s HQ, where contract killer Frankie Flowers ( Clifton Collins Jr) is tortured, is Rio Vista Farm Historic District, 800-801 Rio Vista Road in Socorro, southeast of El Paso, Texas. Though there are a couple of establishing shots of the real Tijuana, the bordertown scenes were actually shot about 500 miles east, on the streets of Nogales, on the border with Arizona. The ‘Mexican’ desert, where Javier is relieved of confiscated drugs by the dubious General Salazar ( Tomas Milian), is Box Canyon, just off Shalem Colony Trail, west of Las Cruces, New Mexico. It's claimed the production uses over 100 separate locations to chart the complexities of the international drug trade, with three separate story strands centering on cop Javier ( Benicio Del Toro) in Mexico Helena Ayala ( Catherine Zeta-Jones), the wife of a wealthy drug lord in San Diego and anti-drug czar Robert Wakefield ( Michael Douglas) in Cincinnati and Washington DC. Their election has given a lot of people reason to hope the corruption and violence that has plagued that country can be stopped.The director’s decision to operate his own (mainly hand-held) camera gives Steven Soderbergh’s take on the UK TV miniseries, Traffik, a feeling of documentary immediacy. The Nightline team also traveled to Mexico City, where Koppel talked to new Mexican President Vincente Fox and several key members of his administration. New Hope for an End to Corruption and Violence anti-drug czar Michael Douglas the same tour of the San Ysidro border crossing that he gave us. He had a role in the film Traffic, where he played himself, giving U.S. About 89 million privately owned vehicles cross the Southwestern border into the U.S. Customs official Rudy Camacho demonstrated how customs agents try to stop the inflow of drugs.ĭrug-sniffing drugs and other technology try to identify which cars have drugs hidden inside. The team also spent time on the U.S.-Mexican border at San Ysidro, America's busiest port of entry. "I go to the office and I don't know which route I'm going to take, they never tell me, it's always a surprise for me," he told us. He can only leave his home with a team of 12 bodyguards. He can only.īlancornelas now lives in a virtual prison. He has survived at least one attempt on his life.Blancornelas now lives in a virtual prison. He published a daring series of articles on the grip the drug cartels have on his city and he became a target for assassination. Is there any way to stop it?The Nightline team talked to Jesus Blancornelas, the editor of Zetam, a weekly newspaper in Tijuana. And yet, 14.8 million Americans said they used illegal drugs in 1999, according to a recent survey. Fighting the war on drugs costs American taxpayers $18 billion a year. While fiction, it shed more light on the drug war than most reporting has.īut was it accurate? Did it understate or overstate the violence, the corruption, the entrenchment of the problems? Anchor Ted Koppel, correspondent Deborah Amos and a team of producers went to Tijuana, Mexico, where much of the film was set.We found the reality was even more disturbing than it was portrayed in the film. Traffic was a film that impressed all of us here at Nightline. Nightline: Traffic - The Reality Behind the Movie
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