Las delicias del poder ("The Delights of Power") is a 1999 Mexican political satire comedy film directed by Iván Lipkies starring María Elena Velasco as La India María with Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Irma Dorantes, and Adalberto Martínez.
[1] In 1952, the presidential candidate of the PUM (Partido Único de Machos) political party Carmelo Barriga visits the rural town of San Jilemón el Alto where he gives a speech promoting his candidacy and political party.
During the speech and among the townspeople, a young woman gives birth to two twin girls.
Lorena then becomes a presidential candidate running against her rival, Santos Barboza of the PUM.
When Lorena and her campaign visits San Toribio del Trueno, a firework accident causes her to abandon the candidacy.