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MOVIE #1,910 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.19.24 This is an especially interesting document given very recent developments in society (I hate even thinking about it, to be totally honest): a look at the Texas border town of Eagle Pass and its Mexican neighbor Piedras Negras and told through the lens of the mayor and a local cattle broker whose business relies on doing business on the other side of the river. Set during the end of the second Obama administration, we initially see a solid, friendly relationship between these two countries (in microcosm). As drug/gang violence looms, the federal government steps in with a travel/import embargo. We see how some fear is exploited for political gain as the people who actually live there wonder how and why they’ve been reduced to pawns in this broader conversation.

Naturally, the film itself doesn’t take a stand or comment on these matters. But it’s still fascinating to see what life was like in a place that has become ground zero for chaos both real and imagined less than ten years later. This was a bit of tricky — and, frankly, cheap — editing…

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For generations, all that distinguished Eagle Pass, TX, from Piedras Negras, MX, was the Rio Grande. But when darkness descends upon these harmonious border towns, a cowboy and lawman face a new reality that threatens their way of life. It was released on January 25, 2015.