'La Dictadura Perfecta': Mexico's 'House of Cards' Hits Too Close to Home Karla Zabludovsky - Newsweek
go to original September 2, 2014

La Dictadura Perfecta Trailer (La Dictadura Perfecta)

There’s the handsome, young president who puts his foot in his mouth frequently. There’s the corrupt governor caught on camera accepting a briefcase full of money in his office. And there’s the gargantuan television network that, for a hefty sum, propels the latter into the presidency through a carefully crafted image cleanup scheme that includes pairing him up with its most attractive starlet.

An unusual disclaimer in Luis Estrada’s latest X-ray of Mexico, the highly anticipated film The Perfect Dictatorship, precedes those scenes: “In this story all of the names are fictitious, the events suspiciously real. Any similarity with reality is not mere coincidence.”

Mexicans watching the film will be overtaken by a sense of déjà vu as, indeed, most of it was inspired by scandals that have dominated newspaper pages and television news programs in recent years.

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