The title Iran/Contra scandal is confusing I think. If it were named "We gave a shit ton of money to death squads in the 80's and we kinda knew they were assholes" nobody would ever be confused about what the Iran Contra scandal was about.
As part of a bigger story on migration issues I went to Tucson Arizona to interview the founder of No Mas Muertes aka No More Deaths aka people who leave water in the desert of Pima county so that migrants don't die.
Before interviewing him I did some research and discovered that he had been in the game for quite some time, all the way back to the 80s. I had never really looked into the death squads of Central America to deeply. Basically what started as a small interview became something I obsessesed over for about about a month. It was a dark period indeed. I decided to leave out the major vulgarity of some of the footage I put together for this film to make something more palatable for people who just want to understand what sort of happened.
The great photographer Adam Kufeld was kind enough to allow me to use his photography from El Salvador during this period. I cant imagine what it would be like to photograph some of the horror he must have witnessed.
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