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'Cartel Land' Offers Front Row Seat to US-Mexico Drug Warby webdesk@voanews.com (Penelope Poulou) Sunday August 23rd, 2015 at 12:23 PM

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'Cartel Land' Offers Front Row Seat to US-Mexico Drug War by webdesk@voanews.com (Penelope Poulou) Sunday August 23 rd , 2015  at  12:23 PM Voice Of America 1 Share Matthew Heineman’s documentary Cartel Land is made of the stuff we watch in Western movies. Only, this narrative is for real. Two vigilante groups, one on the American side of the Arizona border, the other in Mexico, fight a common enemy: drug cartels. Is their war a righteous one? Matthew Heineman, who was embedded with both groups to film the documentary, offers a first-hand account. In the middle of the night, methamphetamine cooks get to work in the desert in the western Mexican... Many Ebola Survivors Struggling With Ailments by webdesk@voanews.com (Associated Press) Sunday August 23 rd , 2015  at  12:23 PM Voice Of America 1 Share Lingering health problems afflicting many of the roughly 13,000 Ebola survivors have galvanized global