This documentary was nominated for a variety of awards and honors. With that in mind for this activity I want you to act in the role of a film critic utilizing your knowledge of the historical context of the drug trade gleaned from David Courtwright's chapters in Forces of Habit. Craft a film write up that might be used in a newspaper or magazine. It should be 300-500 words and you need to include a brief summary of the documentaries content before you begin to discuss it's quality. In your review you need to compare the events and situations in 1987 to the discussion of the drug trade in Central America in the 2000s taken from the articles you read from the Pulitzer Center Website. Complete the activity in a word document and upload it here.  Drug trade article: Central America is under siege from Mexico's powerful criminal mafias, who are fighting to control lucrative smuggling routes for U.S.-bound heroin and cocaine from South America. In the region's small, weak states, the cartels have found pliant politicians, ample money-laundering opportunities and vast tracts of unguarded jungles and cays for their trafficking operations. U.S. drug officials say more than 90 percent of the cocaine that reaches the United States moves through these countries. The billion-dollar business is enacting a terrible cost. Awash in guns and leftover munitions from the fratricidal conflicts of the Cold War, several Central American nations have soaring murder rates that are now several times higher than Mexico's. The traffickers' corrupting influence has reached the highest levels of government in several countries, as Mexican gangsters burrow deeper into the region through the pockets of the ruling elite. In June the Obama Administration pledged more than $200 million in new security assistance for Central America, but its leaders are pushing for more money, saying their sovereignty and stability are being undermined by the wealth and fearsome power of the cartels.