Mexican actors Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna speak onstage during the 76th Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles on Sept. 15.Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images
¿Me entiendes? Mexican film stars and Emmy award presenters Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal charmed viewers of the Sunday ceremony in Los Angeles by presenting the Outstanding Directing for a Limited Anthology Series or Movie category entirely in Spanish.
Luna shouted out to “the 50 million people in this country who speak Spanish,” earning cheers from the crowd. Explaining their choice to speak en español, Bernal said the pair were told that the Emmys was losing part of its audience, so they decide to “push the limits.”
The stars, who met each other as childhood friends, star in Hulu’s upcoming series La Máquina about an aging boxer and his manager based in Mexico who are trying to make a comeback. It is Hulu’s first Spanish-language original series.
What film catapulted Luna and García Bernal to fame in the early 2000s?
Y Tu Mamá También
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We recommend this New York Times interview with Luna, García Bernal, and director Alfonso Cuarón that looks at how, 20 years later, “‘Y Tu Mamá También’ Changed Everything.”
Supporters of late Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori wait for his hearse to pass in Lima on Sept. 12.
Supporters of late Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori wait for his hearse to pass in Lima on Sept. 12.Ernesto Benavides/AFP via Getty Images
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori died last week of cancer at age 86. His divisive legacy continues to loom large over the country’s politics.
Fujimori ruled Peru from 1990 to 2000, directing a pro-market overhaul of Peru’s economy and leading an anti-insurgency campaign against the Shining Past leftist insurgent group. He was later imprisoned for human rights violations during that period.
In 1992, amid insecurity in the country and congressional resistance to his legislative agenda, Fujimori shut down Congress and the Supreme Court and declared a state of emergency. Scholars say the move has inspired executive power grabs elsewhere in the region.
Fujimori’s story pulls from all corners of Latin American politics. As a child, he admired Argentina’s leftist leader Eva Perón, but he would go on to be a right-wing leader who carried out shock therapy programs. Fujimori was also able to connect with poor Indigenous workers while celebrating his immigrant heritage. (His parents moved to Peru from Japan.)
Fujimori was the first democratically elected president in the world to be tried and convicted of human rights abuses in his own country. He served around 16 years in prison before he was released on a controversial pardon and on humanitarian grounds last year.
Fujimori’s daughter, Keiko, remains influential in Peru’s opposition and advocated for the pardon. She is a likely presidential candidate for the next elections in 2026. “Well over two decades after his downfall, Peru still hasn’t gotten past Fujimori,” Mitra Taj wrote in Foreign Policy’s obituary.
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