Traffic (2000 film)

Traffic is a 2000 American crime drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Stephen Gaghan. It explores the illegal drug trade from a number of perspectives a user, an enforcer, a politician and a trafficker. Their stories are edited together throughout the film, although some of the characters do not meet each other. The film is an adaptation of the British Channeltelevision series Traffik.

In Mexico, police officer Javier Rodriguez del Toro and his partner Manolo Sanchez Vargas stop a drug transport and arrest the couriers. Their arrest is interrupted by General Salazar Milian, a highranking Mexican official who decides to hire Javier. Salazar instructs him to apprehend Francisco Flores Collins, a hitman for the Tijuana Cartel, headed by the Obregn brothers.Back in Tijuana, Flores, under torture, gives Salazar the names of important members of the Obregn cartel, who are arrested. Javier and Salazars efforts begin to cripple the Obregn brothers cocaine outfit, but Javier soon discovers Salazar is a pawn for the Jurez Cartel, the rival of the Obregn brothers. That entire portion of the Mexican antidrug campaign is a fraud, as Salazar is wiping out one cartel because he has aligned with another for profit. ........

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