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"IN 15 MINUTES I'LL RESOLVE THE PROBLEM WITH THE REBELS":
ANOTHER BROKEN PROMISE
THE PRESIDENT OF CHANGE, FROM 70% TO 30% NATIONAL APPROVAL
THE PRESIDENT LEAVES BEHIND INSECURITY AND DRUG TRAFFICKING WITH NO SOLUTION
OTHERS
ANDRÉS LABRADOR LEADS AS PREFERRED CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENTIAL VOTE
Congratulations, the poll results are very encouraging.
Everything indicates your boss will be the next president.
He won't be seeing you.
He wants you to know he values your interest in working for him,
but he doesn't want anybody who is related to past governments.
That's exactly what the current president said.
But eventually, everybody needs someone to do the dirty work.
Perhaps...
but we don't want deals made with drug lords during his term,
and that's what you're good at.
That he named you his coordinator...
only means he lets others do the dirty work for him.
Tell him he can save that fake morality for the media,
and to reconsider the information I send him.
- Sir, it has begun. -Fuck...
What did I miss?
Not much. It just started.
The biggest problem facing our country...
is the disproportionate power
that the two main parties have exercised while ruling Mexico.
Both the IWP
ANDRÉS LABRADOR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR THE PRP
and the DAP,
the ones you trusted with your vote in the last elections,
are the two sides of the same coin.
During my government, criminals will be imprisoned,
no matter which party they belong to or how much money they have.
The impunity deals struck for them and their partners... is over now.
Game over.
Hello?
I sense Andrés Labrador won't cooperate with us, Conrado.
I like the bastard, but he makes me nervous.
He's only good at speaking.
I need the next president to hold us in high esteem,
so he will respect our deals.
Do whatever you need to, but stay in the government, are we clear?
Focus on your issue with the Cano and leave the rest to me.
Don't worry about Labrador...
he won't win.
..the victory of the DAP for the presidency of the republic.
President Felipe! President Felipe!
FELIPE ALARCÓN DAP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
How are you doing?
Thank you for agreeing to see me.
-Sorry for the inconvenience. -None at all.
I am glad to find a spot in the next president's schedule.
Thank you for saying I'm the next president.
We are still fighting for it.
But Labrador knows how to sell his image.
He presents himself as the savior of this country.
I can help you uncover something no one knows about him yet.
We all have our secrets.
I know how to discover them.
What do you want in exchange?
That you name me Secretary for Public Security when you are elected.
Do we have a deal?
Show me you can help me, and you'll have what you want.
CHAPO'S SAFE HOUSE
We made Michoacan's men retreat,
but I almost didn't make it.
Cano is attacking the turf, sir, killing everybody,
saying it's because Nazario entered the Federation.
Tell Arturo and La Muñeca to go there with more men.
And have Placencia and Chente send people to Veracruz and Tabasco.
I don't want any survivors.
There is a more urgent matter.
The Emes got in Canelas.
Fucking morons.
He could have broken into my house.
We need more people like you. Can you find any?
Give me a chance, and I'll get a team for you.
Call the Canelas as well.
Whoever wants to help. Prepare the trip.
I'll deal with the Emes myself.
FEDERAL POLICE BUILDING MEXICO CITY
Food's here.
Thank you, boss.
Anything about Labrador?
Did you investigate his brother's death?
Yes. Nothing we can use.
Labrador was 10 when it happened, and it was an accident.
What else did you find?
Nothing useful.
No way.
No one gets that high without getting their hands dirty.
You only have to remove the soil to find their darkest secrets.
In that case, he knows how to hide them.
No infidelities, no secret accounts.
And his family lives modestly.
What about his collaborators?
Who do we investigate first?
Andrés, I have good news.
We got money for the campaign.
It's not the teachers' money, is it?
I want nothing to do with the Union.
No, they don't have money.
They wanted to help in a different way.
Not another word.
The less I know, the better.
Where does the support come from?
From a businessman.
Carlos Almada.
I don't want any deals with him.
If you want to gain popularity, we need more resources.
I'd have to pay dearly for the favor.
Besides, it's well known we don't use dirty money on my campaign.
Not all the money we accepted was clean.
It's money from people who want to do the right thing now.
We all get a second chance, except Carlos Almada.
He has no intention of doing such a thing.
-I can ask him. -No!
I don't want you to contact him anymore.
ROAD TO VICTORY!
-So? -Nothing.
CÉSAR MAYNEZ CAMPAIGN PRESS SECRETARY
He refused the help from the Union
and Carlos Almada's as well.
What the fuck does he want me to do?
You should know him by now.
Sometimes he says no to everything, and others he accepts.
Whatever is convenient.
Be patient.
I'd rather have money. Then I can be patient.
I know.
Yes, sir, right away.
Go in, please.
Mr. Almada can see you now.
CARLOS ALMADA BUSINESSMAN
Nice to see you, Carlos.
It's 45,000.
Thank you.
Do they fit? I can ask Julia for a box.
No, they fit.
With this help, you can rest assured it'll go very well for you.
We don't forget our friends.
Thank you.
Let me go with you, sir. You'll need me when you go against the Emes.
Stay put.
I need you fully recovered.
You're no good to us like that.
Dad.
Where are you going?
Don't worry, son. I'll be fine.
You don't know that.
How's your grandma?
Not so good.
Are you still visiting her every day?
How can you be so coldblooded?
The Chente killed my uncle, and you still make deals with him.
That's why you came here?
To criticize my decisions?
He was your brother, Dad.
Excuse me, sir. We are ready.
Is this what Quino thinks, too?
No one knows your feelings better than yourself.
That I hold back doesn't mean it doesn't hurt me,
but what I am doing now is bigger
than your uncle's death, may he rest in peace.
-But how can you... -OK, boy, enough!
If you don't walk in my shoes, you know nothing about my path.
And don't make that face.
I don't want to leave angry with you.
Come here.
LABRADOR'S CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS MEXICO CITY
Andrés, nice to meet you.
No, sorry, not that.
Sorry.
Andrés, the interview starts in five minutes.
If the reporter crosses the line, don't answer.
We got your back.
No, don't help him either, got it?
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