

The Perfect Dictatorship(2014)
"Television has already appointed a president... Will it do it again?"
Overview
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?
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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

Luis Fernando Peña
El Chamoy

Gustavo Sánchez Parra
El Charro

Sergio Mayer
El Presidente

Hernán Mendoza
El Mazacote

Livia Brito Pestana
Jazmín

Itatí Cantoral
Lucrecia Lascurain

Jorge Poza
Rafael Lascurain
Kiara Coussirat
Gemela Ana
Karol Coussirat
Gemala Elena

Roger Cudney
Embajador USA
Ingrid Martz
Secretaria vicepresidencia TV MX

Johanna Murillo
Secretaria dirección TV MX
Javier Escobar
El Mapache

Sophie Alexander-Katz
Reportera

Ernesto Gómez Cruz
Señor Humilde

José Concepción Macías
Testigo

Claudia Pineda
Niña sin rostro

Juan Pablo Medina
Novio

Jorge Zárate
Coronel
Guillermo Larrea
Reportero del Escándalo 1
Juan Martín Jáuregui
Reportero del Escándalo 2

Luciana González de León
Reportera del Escándalo 3
Javier Zaragoza
Camarógrafo
Rubén Camelo
Ingeniero Máster
Tomás Rojas
Analista

Ari Gallegos
Colaborador del Opositor
Tony Flores
Tony Cuevas

Humberto Busto
Encargado del Hotel

Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Don Alejandro
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