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El Norte

El Norte tells the life of two Guatemalan siblings Enrique and Rosa who are moving to the United States hoping a better life and a better future. The setting of the movie is in the country side of Guatemala, Mexico and United States. Life in Guatemala is very rough for Enrique's family. The father of Enrique and Rosa worked in a coffee bean for a rich person. The political power and military enforcement made the poor to work for rich people. "To the rich the peasant is just a pair of arms", Enrique's father told him this it means that the bosses cared nothing for a man, only for his strong arms. Since the lives were miserable for the Guatemala people Enrique's father organized a revolutionary meeting against the military to over throw them. When the military force finds the secret meeting they killed Enrique father and taken away their mother, end up never to be seen again. When the lives of the Enrique and Rosa became danger they decided to travel to the Promise Land (United......


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