Cocaine Prison
Season 4 Episode 5 | 1h 15m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
Follow the lives of three Bolivians working at the lowest levels of the cocaine trade.
Follow the lives of three indigenous Bolivians who work at the lowest levels of the cocaine trade: two inmates of an overcrowded prison film their daily experiences, while one’s sister decides whether to traffic cocaine or pursue a college education. COCAINE PRISON bridges the ever-widening gap between the North and South, and brings a new perspective to the War on Drugs being waged in the Andes.
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Cocaine Prison
Season 4 Episode 5 | 1h 15m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
Follow the lives of three indigenous Bolivians who work at the lowest levels of the cocaine trade: two inmates of an overcrowded prison film their daily experiences, while one’s sister decides whether to traffic cocaine or pursue a college education. COCAINE PRISON bridges the ever-widening gap between the North and South, and brings a new perspective to the War on Drugs being waged in the Andes.
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MAN (speaking Spanish): HERNAN TORRES (speaking Spanish): NARRATOR: A human lens on the international drug trade.
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♪ (woman singing in world language) ♪ (insects chirping) ♪ VIOLETA AYALA: DEISY TORRES: (laughter) ♪ (insects chirping, leaves rustling) DEISY: (insects, nature sounds) (insects, nature sounds) (leaves rustling, birds chirping, indistinct chatter) (leaves rustling, nature sounds) MAN: DEISY: (coca leaves rustling) DEISY'S FATHER: (insects chirping, nature sounds) DEISY: (laughter) Hm?
(indistinct chatter) (traffic sounds) DEISY: (indistinct chatter) DEISY: (horn honking) (speaking on loudspeaker) ♪ DEISY: MAN: ♪ DEISY: ♪ (whistles, shouts) (inmates shouting, gates opening and closing) HERNAN: (indistinct chatter) (whistles, shouts, cheers) MAN (over intercom): HERNAN: (shouts, cheers, whistles) (birds chirping) (man speaking Spanish) DEISY'S FATHER: HERNAN: (TV playing, men coughing) WOMAN (on TV): Each teaspoon has only five to seven calories.
(kitchen appliance whirring on TV) WOMAN (on TV): ...also contains vitamin B12, potassium... (man mumbling, woman continues) ♪ HERNAN: ♪ (people talking in background) HERNAN: (indistinct chatter) HERNAN: (indistinct chatter) MARIO: ROLANDO AND HERNAN: ROLANDO: HERNAN AND ROLANDO: ROLANDO AND HERNAN: ROLANDO: (indistinct chatter) DEISY: (teacher speaking indistinctly) DEISY: MAN (on intercom): (indistinct chatter) DEISY: (laughs) HERNAN: (Deisy speaking Spanish) DEISY: HERNAN: DEISY: (laughter) HERNAN: (market sounds) DEISY: FORTUNE TELLER: ♪ DEISY: HERNAN: AYALA: HERNAN: AYALA AND HERNAN: (shouts, clanging) (singing) DEISY: (singing) HERNAN: (laughter) AYALA: MARIO: AYALA: MARIO: HERNAN: (indistinct chatter) MARIO: AYALA (in English): We start for real!
One, two, three, go!
(class reciting alphabet in English) AYALA: J.
- K. - K. AYALA (in Spanish): (all groaning) FALLSHAW: Okay, stop there.
(all laughing) AYALA: (class begins alphabet again) Filmar, filmar, filmar.
MARIO: (speaking Spanish) MARIO: ROLANDO: Yeah.
MARIO: MARIO AND ROLANDO: MARIO: ROLANDO AND MARIO: MARIO: ROLANDO: MARIO: ROLANDO AND MARIO: (laughter) (people chatting) (whistles, clamoring, cheers) HERNAN: (crowd noise) (music playing on phone) HERNAN'S BROTHERS (over phone): HERNAN: BROTHER 1: BROTHER 2: BROTHER 1: HERNAN: BROTHER 1: (music playing) MARIO: (clicking) (pan sizzling) MAN: ROLANDO: MARIO: (rain pelting) AYALA: MERCADO: AYALA: MERCADO: AYALA: MERCADO: ROLANDO: MARIO: MAN (over intercom): MARIO: MAN (yelling): Mario Bernal!
MARIO: ROLANDO: (camera clicking) ♪ (indistinct chatter) ROLANDO: MARIO: ROLANDO AND MARIO: MARIO: (engines puttering) (TV in background) (voice breaking) (crying) (people chattering) (clippers buzzing) MARIO: DEISY: ♪ (running water, chatter) HERNAN: (crowd chatter) (clanking, crowd chatter) ♪ DEISY: (phone keypad beeping) DON CARLOS AND DEISY: DON CARLOS: DEISY: DON CARLOS: DEISY: DON CARLOS: DEISY: DON CARLOS: DEISY: DON CARLOS: ♪ DEISY: FORTUNE TELLER: (people chattering) WOMAN AND DEISY: ♪ ♪ DEISY: (horn honking) (train rumbling) ♪ ♪ (water pouring) ♪ MARIO AND ROLANDO: ROLANDO: MARIO: (whistling, chatter) WOMAN: MARIO: (applause) WOMAN: (applause) (traffic sounds, chatter) AYALA: MARIO: (speaking Spanish) WOMAN: LEDEZMA: (calling out) MARIO: (prisoners chatting, voice over intercom) HERNAN: DEISY: (indistinct chatter) (papers shuffling) DEISY: LAWYER: DEISY: LAWYER: DEISY: LAWYER: DEISY: Mm-hmm.
♪ DEISY: (dogs barking) (car door shuts) (clears throat) ♪ HERNAN: AYALA: HERNAN: AYALA: HERNAN: HERNAN AND AYALA: AYALA: HERNAN: AYALA: HERNAN: AYALA: HERNAN: AYALA AND HERNAN: AYALA: HERNAN: AYALA: HERNAN: LAWYER 2: DEISY: LAWYER 2: DEISY: LAWYER 2: (TV playing in background) ALL: ♪ Happy birthday to you (singing "Happy Birthday" in Spanish) MAN: HERNAN: (indistinct chatter) (baby crying) (construction work) MARIO: (laughter) AYALA: MARIO: MARIO: MERCADO: MARIO: MERCADO: MARIO: MERCADO: MARIO: MERCADO: AYALA: MARIO: (laughter) MARIO: AYALA: (distant chatter, construction work) MARIO: LAWYER 1: (indistinct chatter) (prisoners chatting) (phone dialing) MARIO: ♪ ROLANDO: MARIO: ♪ ♪ JUDGE: (children shouting playfully) MARIO: (people talking, objects clattering in background) MARIO: DEISY AND MARIO: DEISY: MARIO: HERNAN: DEISY AND HERNAN: HERNAN AND DEISY: (laughter) MEN: (radio plays in the background) (talking in background) ROLANDO: MARIO: (indistinct conversation) MARIO: (horn honks) (horn honks) ♪ (radio playing in background) ♪ (people chattering) (man talking loudly in background) (hammering) (voice on loudspeaker) (people chattering) (horn honking) DEISY: MOTHER: (family members conversing) FAMILY MEMBER: (family singing) HERNAN: (laughter) HERNAN: (laughter) (shouting, whistling) (shouting, whistling continue) (engine revs loudly) REPORTER: (crowd shouting) (shouting continues) MAN (on intercom): (objects clattering) (whistling, shouting continue) (sirens wailing) (popping, loud thud) (rapid popping) (shouting continues) (TV news music playing) (shouting continues) TELEVISION REPORTER: TELEVISION REPORTER: EVO MORALES: PRISONER: (reporter speaking on radio in background) (people conversing in background) (horn honks) MAN AND DEISY: DEISY: MAN: DEISY: MAN: DEISY: MAN: (teacher speaking) TEACHER: (applause) (people chattering) AYALA: HERNAN: AYALA: HERNAN: AYALA: HERNAN: HERNAN: MAN: HERNAN: MAN: HERNAN: WOMAN: HERNAN: MAN: HERNAN: MAN: HERNAN: (group singing) PRISONER: HERNAN: PRISONER: HERNAN: ♪ ♪ DEISY: (indistinct chatter) ♪ ♪ (horn honks) ♪ ♪ (whistle echoes) ♪ ♪ (singer vocalizing) ♪ ♪ (vocalizing continues) ♪
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