National Association of Actors

The National Association of Actors (Spanish: Asociación Nacional de Actores, ANDA) is the Mexican actors guild. It is a member of the Bloque Latinoamericano de Actores (BLADA, the Latin American Actors' Block) that includes all of the actors' unions in Latin America.

The ANDA is headquartered in the colonia (borough) San Rafael of Mexico City and presided over by Áaron Hernán as general secretary.

ANDA began in 1934 as an independent union of actors guilds from throughout Mexico. When Angel T. Sala became its secretary general in 1936, the union was subsumed into the Union of Cinema Studio Workers (Unión de los Trabajadores de Estudio Cinematográficos, UTEC), which was under the control of the CTM, a labor confederation with allegiance to the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party. The actors, however, continued their struggle for independence and for union democracy.

In 2005, the ANDA had a conflict with Grabaciones y Doblajes Internacionales, which is in charge of the Spanish language-dubbing of the show The Simpsons. The conflict revolved around changing voice actors of the Mexican version of the show. Raymundo Capetillo, Secretary of Work and Conflict promised to defend the cause of the voice actors.^[1]

Secretaries General

Some of the most famous Secretaries General of the ANDA are:

• Cantinflas
• Jorge Negrete (elected 1944)
• Rodolfo Echeverría, brother of President Luis Echeverría

Footnotes

1. ^ (Spanish) Defiende la ANDA voces de Los Simpson ("ANDA defends the voices of The Simpsons) [[El Universal (Mexico City)|]], January 11, 2005. Accessed on February 10, 2006

See also

Organized labour portal

• Screen Actors Guild – United States actors guild
• Associación Nacional de Intérpretes (ANDI) – Singers guild of Mexico

External links

• anda.org.mx, domain name (inactive as a website)
• BLADA