The make-shift bombs hurtle from the clouds on villages in the hills of Mexico’s southern Sierra Madre mountains making residents flee in terror. Local gunmen keep look out and try to shoot the killer drones down, but they often fly too high for them to nail. In one case, however, they got their target and recovered the memory card with these videos of the attacks.
I went down to Guerrero to produce this story on Mexico’s cartel drone war for CrashOut last May working with local journalists Servando Mellin and Javier Verdin. We also hammered together this guerrilla documentary explainer and with cartel drones back in the news and the threat of U.S. strikes into Mexico, CrashOut video-master Omid Visua has worked on a new edit for the site. This is open to all but I appreciate support to make bigger and better guerrilla documentaries at CrashOut. We currently produce them for the price big TV outlets spend on their bar bill. But we love our work.
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