One week after promulgating rules to open up the decision-making process for documentaries to be considered for an Academy Award, the Los Angeles-based Phase One committee and the Foreign Language Award Executive committee of the Motion Picture Academy announced its shortlist of proposed nominees yesterday. Surprisingly, these nine films didn't include the official Oscar entry from Mexico, Miss Bala, an outstanding feature film that deals with one of the most important issues confronting not only Mexico but our country today -- the failed war on drugs.