Hollywood Gives Mexico a Distorted Image, Mexican Ambassador Says EFE
go to original September 16, 2013

Mexico's ambassador to the United States, Eduardo Medina Mora (EFE)

WASHINGTON - Mexico's ambassador to the United States, Eduardo Medina Mora, accused Hollywood of creating a distorted image of his country, adding that stereotypes of "gardeners and drug traffickers" fail to mention the contributions Mexicans have made to the United States.

In Hollywood, Mexican characters are frequently drug traffickers and gardeners, and "Mexicans in the silver screen are usually portrayed as poor and uneducated at best, corrupt and violent at worst," Medina Mora told a press conference Friday at the National Press Club in Washington.

... The diplomat noted the importance of ridding American movies of the myths and stereotypes that persist about Mexican immigrants, because "the American public, which consume those types of movies, will inevitably be influenced by them."

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