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Cause for Murder
Thursday, September 5, 2002
Recently Mexico was startled by the murders of two young women lawyers, one from the poltiical right and the other from the left. Both had fought to support human rights and legitimate protest, and to destroy the official and institutional corruption that has plagued Mexico for years -- a system of bribes, debts and favors that has prevented the world's tenth-largest country from fulfilling its political and economic potential. The election of President Vicente Fox in 2000 ended more than 70 years of single-party rule. This film examines the hopes that a new dawn has come in Mexico's history, and the fear that graft and corruption are immoveable.
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This film is co-reported with THE NEW YORK TIMES. Director Pamela Yates has produced and directed films for PBS (PRESUMED GUILTY, WHEN THE MOUNTAINS TREMBLE, NICARAGUA: REPORT FROM THE FRONT) as well as CBS, SHOWTIME NETWORKS, and NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. Yates was the Executive Producer of the Academy
Award-winning WITNESS TO WAR and the Producer of the Emmy Award-winning LOSS OF
INNOCENCE.
Photos: AP
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