The Perfect Dictatorship (2014) on Netflix
Governor Carmelo Vargas is filmed taking bribes, risking his career. He pays Television Mexicana to repair his image, and the task goes to producer Carlos Rojo and reporter Ricardo Díaz.
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Plot summary
Welcoming the new United States Ambassador, the President of Mexico says more Mexicans should be let into the country because they take jobs that even black people did not want, and millions spread memes about the remark. Officials push Television Mexicana to bury the uproar by airing a video of Governor Carmelo Vargas accepting money from drug traffickers. Vargas negotiates with the network to repair his standing, and it sends producer Carlos Rojo and reporter Ricardo Díaz to his state, where men sent by the governor meet them. Rojo is introduced to Agustín Morales, an opposition leader, who brings him to Congress and there demands in a speech that the governor step down. To lift Vargas, the network turns to the kidnapping of twin girls, whose parents sign an exclusivity deal with the channel.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Perfect Dictatorship (2014)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film's title is taken from Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa's famous phrase describing the Institutional Revolutionary Party's continuous governments, which dominated Mexican politics for much of the 20th century.
- The plot is loosely based on the Televisa controversy of the 2012 Mexican presidential election, when citizens heavily perceived the news media as unfairly favoring the PRI's candidate, Enrique Peña Nieto.
- The scene of Governor Carmelo Vargas taking money from alleged drug trafficker "El Mazacote" parallels a real video shown on El Mañanero on March 3, 2004, in which René Bejarano is seen receiving wads of cash in a briefcase from Argentine businessman Carlos Ahumada.
