Life imitates art in a New York Times article that probes the events that inspired Steven Soderbergh’s movie “Traffic.” The article focuses on a former Mexican police official who helped hunt down drug traffickers, much like the character Benicio del Toro so memorably portrayed in the Oscar-winning movie. The police official became an informant for the DEA, just like the character in the movie. But the actual events that followed – carefully kept secret by the United States and Mexico for more than a decade – left the informant’s life in ruins, a sharp departure from how things played out on the silver screen. In this video, the reporter Ginger Thompson talks with Stephen...