El Privilegio de Mandar - Main Characters

Main Characters

• Andrés Manuel (Germán Ortega) — also known as El Peje — he is the parody of Party of the Democratic Revolution’s former candidate to the presidency, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The logo of the party is parodied as El Sol Azteca referring to the sun in the yellow background and the prehispanic culture Los Aztecas
• Campa (Freddy Ortega) Ref. to Roberto Campa. He is the candidate to the presidency for the Partido Nueva Alianza
• Canti (Carlos Espejel). Sometimes referred to as "Carlinflas", he is an inhabitant of Colonia el Relaxo. He represents the people from Mexico, formerly known as El Pueblo. His character is also the parody of a world-famous Mexican comedian: Mario Moreno Cantinflas. Espejel played this character from 1982 to 1992, stopping because of the death of Cantinflas. He was offered to play it again in 2004, and after a while he accepted.
• Chente (Alfonso Villalpando) Chente is a short form for "Vicente" in Mexico (Vicente Fox Quesada, former President of Mexico). He is the president of the Colonia el Relaxo.
• Cuauhtémoc (Arath de la Torre) Is the first name of C. Cardenas, former candidate of the PRD for the presidency of Mexico (1988, 1994, 2000) and son of Lázaro Cárdenas del Río, president of Mexico in 1934-1940. At first he resists the idea of Peje taking his place as candidate for the presidence but he gives him the chance.
• Felipe Calderón (Eduardo España) — also known simply as Felipe — he was the parody of the National Action Party’s candidate to the presidency of Mexico, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, who is now President of Mexico. PAN party is referred to as los azules, parodying the blue color of the party’s logo. Sometimes is also represented as a piece of bread, because "pan" in Spanish means "bread".
• Jackson Ref. to Enrique Jackson, a congresist from PRI, as his last name is Jackson his recurrent gag was often dancing a coreography of Michael Jackson while the bass of Billy Jean is heard.
• La Jirafa (Yekaterina Kiev) A tall servant girl referred to as The Giraffe because of her height, she is the foil for Canti. She represents also the Mexican people when talking with Canti. She is a parody of Sara Garcia's character in Ahi esta el detalle, she always tries to keep Canti away from home as long as he only goes there to take dinner.
• Martita (Raquel Pankowsky) — also known as Martita Según — represents Former Mexican President Fox's wife, Martha Sahagún de Fox. She was a mandatory spouse that always tries to keep Chente on track and also sometimes she does her husband job.
• Roberto (Arath De La Torre) — also known as Madrazo — he is the parody of Roberto Madrazo, who was the Institutional Revolutionary Party’s candidate to the presidency of Mexico, and that political party's former leader. The party is referred to as tricolor, because the colours of the Mexican flag (green, white and red).
• Sodi (Freddy Ortega). It's the parody of Demetrio Sodi de la Tijera, PAN's former candidate for the head of government in the Federal District.
• Vocero (Jorge Arvizu, El Tata). He represents the spokesman of the former president, Vicente Fox. He currently tries to fix any error of his boss by appearing suddenly and saying "Lo que Chente quiso decir" (...actually Chente is telling...) and said a thing different than the original thing Fox said.