Arturo was born in a distinguished family from the city of Bogota, son of an extremely traditional home. He studied communications and journalism, married a young society woman and had kids whom he sent to study at a bilingual school. He was a loving, fun and correct man, a workaholic, not completely present for his family, which made him suffer the constant recriminations from his wife for spending more hours at the office than at home. Arturo is the “poster” journalist, a defender of freedom of speech and who effectively knows that the media are the fourth power. For his brave columns he got to sit in the director´s chair at “Modus Operandi” in the period where drug trafficking was at its worst moment for the country, drug lords made bombs explode and women had breast implants. He was not afraid to look at where the tentacles of the business that governed the country reached to.
Toto Vega is ARTURO VALENCIA BLANCO
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SYNOPSIS
“Gacha” one of the heads of the Medellin Cartel, at the height of his criminal career he was acknowledged as one of the world's most successful drug dealers. In 1988, Forbes Magazine included him in their annual list of the world's billionaires; this is his story… Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha – “Gacha” leaves his home town with his pride hurt when the woman he has set his eyes on accuses him of being a liar for having given her a rock pretending it was an emerald. In the emerald mines Gacha finds a legitimate emerald stone, that instead of taking it to the object of his affection; he cashes it in to buy his first shipment of marihuana from Colombia´s northern peninsula of the “Guajira”. Acknowledging the business in front of his eyes Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha understands that the drug market within the United States can only be satisfied by setting up an industrial chain originating in Colombia´s oriental region. In less than 5 years this chain becomes the nucleus of a multinational cocaine sales operation with global reach. The size and the strength of the expansion of the trades contaminate and enrage other inhabitants of Colombia´s Oriental region, among them the communist guerrilla. The scenery that follows is the war between privately funded armies and those financed by Rodriguez Gacha and the subversives. In this illegal war the government is also present, part of it corrupted and the other part has to enforce the law and face one of the richest and deadliest men in the world.
TECHNICAL FILE
ORIGINAL IDEA: GERARDO REYES.
SCRIPT: MAURICIO NAVAS.
ASSISTANT SCRIPT: CATALINA PALOMINO / GUSTAVO SALCEDO.
DIRECTORS: DIEGO MEJÍA / MÓNICA BOTERO.
DIRECTOR ASSISTANT: JUAN PABLO MOTA, ANDRÉS PÉREZ.
COORDINATOR OF DIRECTION: ALEXANDRA ROCHA.
VICE PRESIDENCY OF DIRECTION: AMPARO LÓPEZ.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: OSCAR GUARÍN.
COORDINATOR OF PRODUCTION: CAROLINA SALAZAR.
PRODUCTION MANAGER: MARÍA DUQUE.
MANAGER OF LOCATIONS: SYLVIA ROMÁN, JIMMY FRANK FIGUEREDO.
ART DIRECTOR: ROSARIO LOZANO.
COORDINATOR OF ART: JONNY TORRES / JOHANA AGUILLÓN.
POST-PRODUCTIONN DIRECTION: ISABEL CRISTINA MÉNDEZ.
SCRIPT: ANGELICA CADAVID / MARIA FERNANDA GALLO.
SCENOGRAPHY: CESAR CHAPARRO.
COSTUME DESIGN: ROSITA CABAL.
COORDINATOR OF COSTUME: YAMILE HERNÁNDEZ.
MAKEUP DESIGN: BLANCA PEÑA.
CASTING: JUAN PABLO RINCÓN G.
MUSIC: OSVALDO MONTES.
DURATION: 79 x 60 Est.