Julio Bracho filmed La sombra del caudillo, from Martín Luis Guzmán’s novel of 1929, between February and March 1960. The film was then held back. According to Sensacine, “el veto militar impidió su estreno comercial en México de 1960 a 1990” (the military veto prevented its commercial release in Mexico from 1960 to 1990).
In 2011, the Excélsior columnist Lucero Solórzano recalled the charge made in a statement by the Defense Ministry: “la cinta denigra a México y sus instituciones” (the film denigrates Mexico and its institutions). She wrote that “en 1990, 30 años después, llegó su estreno comercial” (in 1990, 30 years later, it had its commercial release).