A guerrilla-styled doc that explores the US directed “War on Drugs” and the impact it has had on the people of Bolivia.

Synopsis

In 2002, filmmaker Jim Sanders, video camera in hand, headed to South America in search of a story of inspiration. After working his way through Venezuela, and the Amazon he arrived at the Third World Social Forum in Porte Alegre, Brasil. While waiting for Noam Chomsky to speak in front of 20, 000 participants, he was captivated by the speech of Leonilda Zurita, leader of the Bartolina Sisa Bolivian Federation of women peasant farmers. She was pleading for the world to take notice of the undeclared war that was being waged against her people. She was speaking at the World Social Forum after enduring 13 days of struggle in which 9 of her companions had been killed by Bolivian security forces. Soon after Jim traveled to Bolivia and the film was born.