The Colombian series is inspired by drug dealer Pablo Escobar and his associates. Ten years after the premiere, three actors have already died
Escobar, the Patron of Evil is a series produced by Caracol Televisión de Colombia and released in November 2022. Despite the years, she remains at the top of Netflix by ratings.
Pablo Escobar, played by Andrés Parra, is Colombia’s most powerful drug dealer.
Pablo Escobar was born on December 1, 1949 and died one day after his 44th birthday on December 2, 1993.
Pablo Escobar’s mother in real life was Hermilda Gaviria (blue). In the series, actress Vicky Hernández gave him a starring role, advising and treating him until his last days.
Pablo Escobar was married to Victoria Eugenia Henao.
Victoria Eugenia Henao was Pablo Escobar’s friend since she was young.
The role of Victoria Eugenia Henao in Escobar, Patron of Evil was played by Colombian actress Cecilia Navia.
This is what Victoria Eugenia Henao, Pablo Escobar’s ex-wife, looks like today. He is 62 years old.
Carlos Lehder, one of Pablo Escobar’s partners, who was played by Alejandro Martínez (Marcos Herber) in the series, has regained his freedom and is now living in Germany.
Juancho Arango was the actor who gave birth to Gustavo Ramírez aka ‘El Mariachi, an emerald and drug dealer who becomes Escobar’s partner.
The Motoa brothers, in real life they were the Ochoa brothers. Jorge Luis, Juan David and Fabio Ochoa Vasquez.
The only drug trafficker from the Ochoa Vázquez family to appear in the series, Pablo Escobar’s partner in the first cocaine shipments to the US, is Fabio Ochoa Vásquez, who has served 30 years in US prison since 2003. Actor Aldemar Correa plays this role.
Incidentally, the father of the Motoa
Another actor who also died was Toto Vega who played Alonso Santorini in the series El patrón del mal, he died in September 2022 in Barichara, Colombia.
Toto has participated in more than 40 television productions since 1992, most recently Mala Yerba in 2021, and 14 film productions.
Another deceased actor from the series was Fabio Restrepo, who passed away on February 13, 2022 at the age of 62. His son, who also starred in the series, had also died from Covid weeks earlier.
Andrés Restrepo, son of Fabio Restrepo, died this Sunday, January 23, 2022 after being admitted to an intensive care unit at a medical center in Medellín.
Andrés Restrepo appeared in the series alongside Ramada, a character inspired by a Honduran drug dealer.
Ramada was actually Ramón Matta Ballesteros, a Honduran being held in the United States. Although he is killed by Pablo Escobar in the series, Matta is alive.
In April 1988, during a raid on his own home in the city of Tegucigalpa, he was kidnapped by United States Marshals and sent to the United States to be tried and convicted of the kidnapping and murder of Enrique Camarena Salazar on other charges suspected that his kidnapping may have been caused by treachery by Miguel Ángel Felix Gallardo to confiscate the routes he owned and ease DEA pressure for the murder of Enrique Camarena Salazar.
Matta is serving 12 life sentences at ADX Florence, a maximum security prison near the city of Florence, Colorado.
On December 7, 2018, the United States dropped charges in the murder of Enrique “KIKI” Camarena Salazar, who is expected to receive a reduced sentence or his release from prison and return to his home country of Honduras.
According to a 1987 study by Forbes magazine, Matta was worth $2,000 million. Matta, like many other drug dealers, gave away money and food to the poorest in Honduras and Colombia; He had so much money that he offered to pay his country’s foreign debt, Honduras, but the President, José Azcona del Hoyo, refused. Matta came to export 65% of Colombia’s cocaine to Spain, a country where he lived for several years, where he formed an alliance with two bosses of Colombia’s largest drug cartels.
According to a 1978 DEA intelligence report, Matta had become a business partner with General Policarpo Paz Garcia and had directly funded a “cocaine kingpin” in Honduras that brought Paz to power. It is believed that it was from this relationship that Matta became involved with the Nicaraguan paramilitary group known as Los Contras.
In January 2020, Ramón Matta Waldurraga, son of drug lord Ramón Matta Ballesteros, who was a partner of Pablo Escobar and now serving a life sentence in the US, was arrested at Bogotá’s El Dorado International Airport.
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