The Mexican Town That Kicked Out Politicians And Started Over ( HBO)

Cherán is a town of some 20, 000 inhabitants in the highlands of Michoacán, one of the Mexican states thats suffered most in the drug wars of the last decade. Armed men and women not police, but members of an autonomous militia guard every entrance to the town, looking for strangers with contraband. At the height of election season in Mexico, contraband means mostly political campaign ads: Guards confiscated thousands of banners and posters, from every major political party in Mexico, in just a few we