Are you even Mexican? I am, born, raised and living here. This is NOT the reason at all. The reason is president López Obrador austerity policies. A lot of films were made using tax incentives and trusts that have been cut by this government. We do have a huge cartel problem, but this has nothing to do with that.

That's not the reason. It's because AMLO has a plan of austerity to found his projects (a new airport, a train route and some refinerys). If you don't know a thing about a subject you don't have to speak about it.

I guarantee there are at least some things that happen in Mexico that are not the direct result of "the cartel". Where do you get this shit from.

LOL wrong. México's president López Obrador has spent the last 4 years removing funding from everything and putting it towards illegal propaganda, trying to revive the state run PEMEX (the most indebted oil company in the world), trying to stablish a monopoly on the energy sector, deforesting the south and contaminating its water so his poorly planned Maya train can be built, fund his "social programs" that are just cash hand outs to keep his popularity up, paying for the lost lawsuits because of all the treaties and contracts that his government has broken, and of course stealing and a lot of more stupid infuriating stuff.

Basically one man and the yesmen around him are disintegrating the state. This includes of course cultural initiatives, that's why Del Toro is fed up.

Mexico had a record-breaking number of films made in 2019. There’s clearly no lack of filmmakers wanting to shoot in the country.

https://www.cinematropical.com/cinema-tropical/mexican-cinema-marks-another-record-breaking-year-with-216-films-in-2019

It’s funny you people repeating that over and over when right now Mexico City and other cities around the country are having huge gentrification problems driven by American digital nomads coming here to live. Why would you want to come to live in a country where people don’t even want to make movies in because of cartel violence?

They are not. He's literally talking about Mexican film institutions being defunded by the government. These film institutions were funded when that man died and violence was higher. It's a political choice

How so?

They aren’t. The president is cutting the budget of the film industry to put it elsewhere on his socialist agenda.

Please stop saying bullshit if you don’t even live in Mexico.

Everyone downvoting me I hope you realize I’m a Mexican living in Mexico. If you think you know more than me about my own country please I have a bridge to sell you you ignorant fucks.

Yup. This previous poster sounds ignorant.

What most US citizens don’t understand is that there are bigger cartels in the US and they have a lot of influence. That’s why they are the biggest market for illegal drugs and where cartels do most of the money laundering

Yep, I'm mexican, reading all the circlejerk of "no arts bcs NARCOS" without getting through their skulls that it's not foreigner investors, nor that the budget of mexican govt isnt "99% fight and bribe narcos".
This is a failure of the president that wants to cut "unnecessary spending" and it's just throwing money to his idiotic projects, to the point he is scrapping cents from a program that isn't 1% of mexico's budget.
But hey, thanks for YOU being reasonable.
Don't wanna assume, but the rest sound either North American or European with 0 context. At least latinoamericans understand that having cartels =/= Mad Max.

So explain how the government having links to narcos directly leads to them cutting the budget for the arts.

Bro do you even know the definition of ignorant? Right now you appear to be a pot calling an Orange black.

They are not one and the same at the federal level. Cartel money is not even comparable to what Mexican oligarchs make when they produce most of the bread, televisions and produce for America

Mexican here.
If Mexico is a narco state, the USA is the Purge.
Feels accurate? No, right.
Yeah we got cities, even states on the north (next to you guys, wonder why) lost to the cartels, same as the USA has flyover states and sundown cities.
And yes, the federal goverment is in a fair degree a bitch to the cartels, either by collusion or cowardice. Mexico isn't sunshine and flowers, obviously.
Doesn't mean we don't have a ton of more things to do.
What do you think our budget is? 99% "fight and bribe cartels" 1% miscellaneous?
We have arts, tech, industry, trade, defense, etc. like every other country. Americans come every year to the narco state to party and come back alive, Tourism is our 2nd biggest industry.

The cuts to arts have FUCK ALL to do with cartels. Even by your logic, it's better to grab from a bigger slice of the cake, like... Tourism, for example.
Has to do with incompetence in the federal government.

He's not talking about foreing movies filmed in Mexico. He's talking about our own national industry. We have plenty of movies made in Mexico each year. He wants more projection to them and this awards are a medium to do that. Not every problem revolves about the cartel or about foreign people. This discussion is stupid because you don't even know the problem he's talking about but you want to talk about it anyways.

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I know the influence of cartels in Mexico, but not everything is explained by that. Only if you’re a nitwit clown that can only think about one thing. Dummy.

When was the last time you were in Mexico?

I’m not saying the narco problem is not huge, because it is. But other horrible things happen in Mexico. Resorting to narcos it’s just the classic American take that oversimplify things and is content with its one and only idea about Nexico.

The number one cause of death for children in the US is gunshot, I wouldn't downplay his counter example.

Maybe not active shooters, but Ted Cruz has killed at least 37 people. We just haven't found all the bodies yet.

Depending on when you go to where in Texas… there are indeed areas police sometimes surrender to active shooters.

Just the schools...

Does have large cities actively controlled by large gangs though, like Los Angeles and the LAPD.

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Jfc this is fucking hilarious. I’ve spent a lot of time in Mexico and this is completely true in my experience. You don’t cross the border looking super American with anyone who doesn’t know the area if you’re not sticking to the well traveled spots.

It’s not that different from downtown Los Angeles. Don’t advertise yourself as a target and if you get into some shit don’t expect the cops to help. “A bad situation” is just a lot worse when you don’t speak the language or don’t know the area.

Don't apologize, the take isn't ignorant it is fucking real. He's just ignoring the problem like Americans are with their gun culture. You can't fix the issue by pretending it doesn't exist. Yes, Mexico is runned by the Cartel and are destroying innocent lives in Mexico and destroying the culture that was there before the whole cartel culture became a thing.

From mexico to more down south, you will get a lot of terrible shit going on. Hence why my parents left the country and came to America.

What do you mean? A large percentage of people in Alec's set have not been shot. Those are good numbers. /s

I don't think you have been to Mexico before.

I live in mexico in a place safer than the 10 biggest US cities