Drum Major is the dramatic story of a reporter who travels to Venezuela to investigate the drug cartel, then realizes he cannot get out of the country.Estenio Morales, Cuban American, is a mediocre reporter for the Miami Sun. Through the murder of his best friend and fellow reporter, he stumbles onto the story of the year. His blind ambition leads him into a world of Venezuelan organized crime, where he becomes a king pin in the world he came to expose. Meanwhile, Morales' wife, the Waspy daughter of a successful businessman, gathers support from Congress, businessmen and the White House in an attempt to free her jailed husband. Through his imprisonment, Morales experiences the real world of poverty, power, inhumanity, murder, race, secrets and betrayal, and changes his materialistic ideals as he becomes a drum major for human rights.