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...Crónicas” follows a Spanish-language tabloid news team covering a serial killer in rural Ecuador. The crew, led by the vain and ambitious field reporter Manolo Bonilla (Leguizamo), includes his sensitive and conflicted producer Marisa (Watling) and their good-natured, stoner cameraman Ivan (José Maria Yazpik...
...serial killer in question, who has been nicknamed the “Monster of Babahoyo,” rapes, tortures and kills young boys and girls. The film begins at the funeral of the Monster’s most recent victims; Bonilla and his team have shamelessly intruded into the ceremony to gather footage of the grieving parents and conduct interviews with townsfolk...
...passerby in a pick-up truck inadvertently strikes and kills the bereaved parents’ surviving son, and the gathered throng of mourners storms his vehicle and conspires to lynch him by immolation. After filming several of the mob’s abortive attempts to set the motorist ablaze, Bonilla decides to intervene and prevent the hapless driver’s execution. Bonilla is able to delay the mob until police can arrest their intended victim, and for this act of “bravery,” Bonilla receives the dubious title “hero...
...Bonilla decides to follow up on the lynching story, and he pays a visit to the driver in jail. The driver, who we learn is called Vinicio (Damián Alcázar) implores Bonilla to be his “hero” once more by running a story that will result in his release from custody: the worst malefactors from the lynch mob have been imprisoned alongside him and make daily attempts against his life. What follows is a cat-and-mouse exchange between Bonilla and Vinicio, in which Vinicio promises information about the “Monster...
...have another gambit up their sleeve. To gain a surer vote on abortion and other hot-button conservative issues, they are proposing that Bush appoint John Cornyn, a conservative Texas Senator and former judge, to the court instead of Gonzales--and fill Cornyn's Senate seat with Representative Henry Bonilla, a Mexican American, in an effort to appeal to Latinos who back Gonzales. The battle will only grow more complicated if Chief Justice William Rehnquist retires, as he reportedly is planning to do, and opens up yet another court vacancy...