where is the setting of the movie traffic?
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Answer by TawnsterMonster
The film begins in Mexico, where police officer Javier Rodriguez (Benicio Del Toro) and his partner, Manolo, stop a drug transport and arrest the couriers. Their arrest is interrupted by General Salazar, a high-ranking Mexican official. The general, who announces he wants to “wipe out the Tijuana cartel,” decides to hire Javier, a rare honest cop in Mexico. Javier is instructed to locate and apprehend Frankie Flowers (Clifton Collins Jr.) – a notorious hit man for the Tijuana Óbregon Drug Cartel.
Meanwhile, Robert Wakefield (Michael Douglas), a conservative Ohio Judge, is appointed to be head of the President’s Office of National Drug Control, taking the title of Drug Czar. Unbeknownst to Robert, his honor student daughter who lives in the Cincinnati suburbs, Caroline (Erika Christensen), is using cocaine and falls victim to drug addiction when she is introduced to freebasing heroin by her boyfriend, Seth (Topher Grace). She and Seth are arrested when another student at her high school overdoses on heroin and they try to dump him anonymously at a nearby hospital.
In the third main story, which is set in San Diego, an undercover DEA investigation – led by Montel Gordon (Don Cheadle) – arrests the high-stakes drug dealer Eduardo Ruiz (Miguel Ferrer) and begins an interrogation. Ruiz decides to risk the dangerous road to immunity by ratting out his boss: drug lord Carlos Ayala (Steven Bauer), the biggest distributor for the Óbregon brothers in the U.S.
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