It’s nice to hear about some films that are about aspects of Latin America other than violence. While violence does exist there–and everywhere else in the world–I think most mainstream and many so-called indy-film’s tend to rely on the cliche that much of Latin America is practically a war zone.

The New York Times Bob Herbert wrote an editorial this week that should have Americans looking at the violence within our own borders. Since 2001 nearly 120,000 Americans have been murdered in the U.S.–mostly as a result of gun violence, he noted in his April 13 Op-Ed column.