Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

The Perfect Dictatorship Hits Theaters

Cinemas throughout Mexico on Thursday premiered Mexican director Luis Estrada’s film the "‘Perfect Dictatorship," a name derived from a quote by author Mario Vargas Llosa to describe Mexico’s political system at a time before the year 2000h that the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) had been ruling the country uninterruptedly for about 70 years.

In 2000 and until 2012, the National Action Party (PAN) won elections. The PRI is no in power again under the administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto.

The film, a dark comedy and parody, intertwines together a critical depiction of the country’s very . . .

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