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Short film: The tale of a 13-year-old drug mule across the deadly desert

By Jesus Diaz Published September 25, 2014, 12:12 pm ET

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This is the story of Manny, a 13 year old boy from Tijuana who has to pay the bills for his family. Weak, poor, desperate, Manny is ripe prey for the merciless Mexican drug lords who sent him into the Arizona desert as a mule. But things are not what they seem. The reality is even worse than that.

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