TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor Vargas worried about his political future, decides to clean his image and negotiates a billionaire secret agreement with the owners of the TV Corporation. Carlos Rojo, an ambitious young news producer, and Ricardo Diaz, TV network star reporter, are responsible for making a dirty campaign to change the image the public has of the corrupt Governor and make him, at any cost, a political star and a great presidential candidate. Mexican Television believes that democracy is a farce and has already placed one President... Will they do it again?
Acting
Damián Alcázar's Vargas is grotesque, magnetic, terrifyingly plausible.
Writing
Estrada's script bites harder than most documentaries dare.
Direction
Balances farce and horror without ever slipping into parody.
Director
Luis Estrada
Damián Alcázar
Gobernador Carmelo Vargas
Alfonso Herrera
Carlos Rojo
Joaquín Cosío
Agustín Morales
Osvaldo Benavides
Ricardo Díaz
Silvia Navarro
Lucía Garza
Flavio Medina
Salvador Garza
Saúl Lisazo
Javier Pérez Harris
Tony Dalton
Director TV MX
Salvador Sánchez
Hombre X
Enrique Arreola
Secretario de gobierno
Arath de la Torre
Vocero
Dagoberto Gama
Procurador
Noé Hernández
Jefe de seguridad
Sonia Couoh
Nana Gemelas
María Rojo
Doña Chole
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title directly references Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa's famous description of Mexico's PRI regime as 'the perfect dictatorship'—a system so effective it didn't need to ban elections.
Estrada based Vargas on multiple real governors, and the film's release timing made it feel less satire and more leaked footage. Several journalists claimed scenes were 'too accurate to be fictional.'
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