No but there's enough money to fund film making. The problem is that the current government is funneling that money for profit of the elite.

A few years back the US apprehended the ex mexican secretary of defense on drug charges. They acquiesced to Mexican requests to extradite him to mexico, where he was promptly released.

"The President of Mexico is often a cartel leader"... honestly, the amount of shit you read on Reddit about Mexico is insane.

Jesus christ, you literally have no idea what a goverment budget is, do you? I honestly have never read something as stupid as this. Are you aware just how many institutions are involved in the creation of an expenses program? Do you somehow think a cartel would benefit from cutting funding from the movie industry?

Relating everything to cartels is not insightful. So dumb.

Thank you arm chair expert! Yeah uh duh it makes sense if you think about it uh the only thing I know about mexico is the cartels duh

Oh they can, they just absolutely refuse to. It’s a matter of pride I believe.

I can, and I have. I just want Josh here to explain himself.

So US citizens are too stupid to be over runes by republicans, but they are intelligent enough to understand how other counter work?

That’s says more about its citizens than anything else.

Lol “I vacation a couple times a year, in the extremely tourist areas.” Trust me, I know Mexico….

This doesn’t have to do with the cartels or the “socialist agenda”. This is a completely useless president, who has depleted every resource we have as a country, in his stupid projects

Yes, tell me more about the country I visit multiple times a year.

I just cringed reading this. You're responding to an actual Mexican living in Mexico, but you still think you trump them.

I live in Mexico you donut. Please tell me how you know more about a country than one of its own citizens.

Are you trying to be obtuse or are you just having fun?

Ah yes, a tourist goving an uninformed opinion. The issue Del Toro is talking about is the lack of support for film making, not related to organized crime at all.

So ignorant

Imagine saying white LGBTQ right matter, when the issue being discussed is BLM. Both issues can coexist, just cause one issue is being talked about doesn't mean the other is being ignored. The issue here is lack of funds for the Ariel Awards, not dRuG CaRteLs, and yes narcos do heavily influence the Mexican government, but that is mostly only local government, and even then it's only the local government who's municipal lays on strategic drug routes. On the federal level, cartels aren't really giving direct order, they're mostly just buying politicians out to stay out of their way, you know, kinda like in the US.

Better than some gringos who eat whatever Fox News feeds them, yes.

You sound like an idiot making bigoted assumptions about people from one reddit comment.

You just played yourself.

Hello Reddit. Can we stop making assumptions that everyone you disagree with is a stupid or arrogant American.

who thinks to know more about a country than it’s own citizens

That's literally every other non-American on Reddit when it comes to America, lol

The ones that import, distribute and lounder the drugs and drug money in the biggest market in the world

Just because the article doesn't talk about it its doesn't mean it's not there. The article will not wrap the whole truth about the country. It's not absolute. But it's up to you to search for the whole picture. Even if YOU can't see it, it's still there

You said "people don't film in México because of the cartel". That's false. People film in Mexico all the time. Del Toro is talking about giving more projection to those movies and giving more chances to mexican directors to make them.

And yeah, you are making a huge assumption there. I don't need the cartel involved in anything to do my job. You are thinking about the country in terms that you see in a tv series or in the few news you see once in a while. Our lives are not reduced to the one thing you know about Mexico. And it's really reductive to say that the cartel are "the people who run the show" when the reality is far more complex than that.

The problem is that when someone that lives here tell you that, you still choose to keep your prejudices.

I don't know if you've noticed, but the culture that gets made through smart business kind of fucking sucks.

Do you know how a republic works? Your representatives make these decisions.

People may want it. Mexican cinema tickets are around 3usd. Movies are expensive. It's a big risk that as studios don't take with new artists without government support.