Great moment!

I agree. Great moment, amazing picture and extraordinary access. Great job indeed, Marco!

Looks like the movie "300" or any other post production heavy imagery - suited more to comic book Geek culture crap than supposed photo journalism

Gary, I strongly disagree.
I think this is a great, provoking image that offers a close glimpse in the world of drug smuggling.
Don't forget that photojournalism has changed. The concept of "rough images documenting a moment" belongs to the past.

David Shonauer wrote an interesting piece about the significant shift in Photojournalism, to introduce the National Magazine Awards 2008(Mother Jones won for General Excellence with a compelling photo story).

From his words:
"...Photojournalism is now an artistic subset, more at home in galleries than in the shrinking real estate of magazines..."
"...There is so much video and still imagery flying around the Internet that maybe we simply don’t need still images of news in the way we once did. We don’t need the reporting and storytelling that has traditionally defined photojournalism. Rather, we need the reflective, moralistic qualities of art."

That's why post production is part of the game. That's why this picture makes the difference.