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Why Do Bandidos Go To Guatemala

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The film starts in Guatemala in a very poor area showing farm workers organizating to form some type of battle against the government to have a better life style. However the film showed the government as Bandidos since the government is so corrupt, dishonest and violent against its own people. As troops killed the group organizing in order for the government still have the socioeconomic power and leave farmers as the working class so the government could have all the money meaning the president having all the luxuries he wants and not suffer for anything. According to the reading Marxism the movie was displaying Guatemalans being ignored by its own government and having zero respect for them since the Guatemalans people were being killed by its own government or taken away. However Enrique and Rosa were fed up with that and decided to immigrate to the United States were they believed that they were going to have a better life than in Guatemala. This film looking through Marxism we can easily see how they were …show more content…

However if we watch this movie through race and ethnicity we will see how they were discriminated by their appearance. As this scene when Enrique and Rosa were in the bus going to Tijuana at once to the arrival another passenger told them" We are in Tijuana you Indians get off" That was just powerful since the person just showed hatred toward them because of their appearance as he was worth more than them. Also a particular scene that captured my eyes was when Enrique was with his coworker in the restaurant and a "poncho" past by and made fun of him since he was born and raise their and was making the same type of work as them who were illegal 's. As if the film was trying to explain that Chicanos will always be working for rich white persons since the restaurant was full of white rich people. As toward the end when Enrique is looking for a job a truck comes and says "I want strong arms to work" just showed how films see us as just working

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