translated from Spanish: Five good Mexican documentaries you can watch on Netflix

Cristian Ruiz
Morelia, Michoacán.- The December holiday is always a good opportunity to be at home and enjoy a good movie next to friends, couple, family or alone. Recently Netflix expanded its catalog of national documentaries and it includes a list of productions that are worth watching, below we will give a list of some of them.
The Devil’s Freedom
Directed by Everardo González and released in cinemas in 2017, “La libertad del diablo” is a harrowing short-lived documentary that collects harrowing testimony of victims and perpetrators of organized crime in northern Mexico.
To safeguard the identity of each of them, the filmmaker chose to put masks on them and modify their voices, but what the viewer will see will be something they will rarely forget: mothers who lost their children, hitmen recounting their first crimes and people who survived a shooting are just some of the cases told in the documentary.
Even the teeth
Alberto Arnaut portrayed on the big screen one of the events that caused the greatest outrage in the contemporary history of Mexico, when in 2010 the Mexican government announced the death of two alleged dangerous hitmen, but in reality they were two students of excellence of the Tecnológico de Monterrey, who were tortured and killed by military.
In the production you can see testimonies of the family, friends and teachers of Jorge Antonio Mercado Alonso and Javier Francisco Arredondo Verdugo about those who were in life and above all the tremendous injustice committed towards them by calling them criminals and justifying their sadistic death.
Lorena, the one with light feet
It is the most recent production of the list and is one of the first original Mexican documentaries of Netflix, and portrays the day-to-day life of Lorena Ramírez, of the Rarámuri community who has participated in super athletic marathons, setting up the name of Mexico.
The director of the documentary is directed by Juan Carlos Rulfo and although it only lasts 28 minutes, he manages to engage with the public by this interesting real story.
Rotten: The War for Avocado
This one is not an exclusive documentary of the avocado, but the first episode of the second season of this documentary series exposes how it was lived between 2013 and 2016 the security crisis in Michoacán and as producers of municipalities such as Tanctaro.
The issue of self-defense also appears and how they acted to defend and prevent avocado entrepreneurs from being extorted by members of organized crime.
Ayotzinapa, the turtle’s passage
Documentary co-produced by renowned Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, chronicles the events that occurred on the night of September 26, 2016, when 43 normalist students disappeared in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero.
Without exaggeration and without any political slash, the documentary is one of those that best explains what happened that night, based on official police reports, videos of surveillance cameras and testimony of people who were close to the scene.

Original source in Spanish