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Los Protegidos is a Colombia
n telenovela
aired since May 6, 2008 on Colombian tv network RCN
. This telenovela is produced by Teleset and it was created as a counterweight for Caracol Televisión's new production El Cartel (TV series)
, but it was premiered before this last one in order to get a higher impact in the viewers.
, after getting a graduated degree in crime investigation, he is sure his future is brilliant, after getting his dream job in La Fiscalia (Investigation Bureau in Colombia
). Finally he will be able to compensate his father, Bernardo Puerta (Carlos Barbosa), the huge effort he had gone into to pay his son's career as a lawyer and then as an expert in crime investigation.
In Italy, Santiago meets Lina Santana (Veronica Orozco
), his better half, classmate and then his fiancee, but when he comes back to Colombia he realizes everything is not going to be as easy as he thought.
Santiago has to face Lina's father, Rogelio Santana, who is completely against the idea of his wedding with Lina. On the other hand Santiago finds out that his father is not the same accountant, but the assistant of a dangerous man nicknamed "El Kes" (Luis Fernando Arango), who is the key man in a huge crime organization on the Colombian Caribbean
.
Santiago convinces his father to betray "El Kes" so he can be back to legality, but things get complicated when Santiago's father begins a relationship with El Kes' all life lover "La Bandi" (Ana Bolena Meza), after she was badly injured by El Kes.
Now, Santiago's family with La Bandi's family has to disappear and become one family with another life completely different, to join a Witnesses Protection Program
. But their hugest fear became true when El Kes escape and now he is looking for them to make them pay for betraying him.
While Lina, who has an incredible gift, being able to know things that are going to happen in the future, is sure she will find Santiago in Bogotá, so she moves there, but what she does not know is that El Kes is in Bogota, too, and he is sure that she is the ticket to find Santiago, and so Bernardo and La Bandi
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
n telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
aired since May 6, 2008 on Colombian tv network RCN
RCN TV
RCN Televisión , is a Colombian private television network. It started as a production company in 1967...
. This telenovela is produced by Teleset and it was created as a counterweight for Caracol Televisión's new production El Cartel (TV series)
El Cartel (TV series)
El Cartel de los Sapos or El Cartel is a Colombian television series that first aired on June 4, 2008 on the Colombian network Caracol TV. It is based on the book by the same name by Andrés López López, alias Florecita , who wrote the book during his years in prison...
, but it was premiered before this last one in order to get a higher impact in the viewers.
Story
The day that Santiago Puerta (Mark Tacher) comes back from ItalyItaly
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, after getting a graduated degree in crime investigation, he is sure his future is brilliant, after getting his dream job in La Fiscalia (Investigation Bureau in Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
). Finally he will be able to compensate his father, Bernardo Puerta (Carlos Barbosa), the huge effort he had gone into to pay his son's career as a lawyer and then as an expert in crime investigation.
In Italy, Santiago meets Lina Santana (Veronica Orozco
Verónica Orozco
Verónica Orozco is a Colombian actress and singer.-Private life:Her older sister is actress Ana María Orozco.Her mother is Carmenza Aristizábal Hoyos and her father is actor Luís Fernando Orozco...
), his better half, classmate and then his fiancee, but when he comes back to Colombia he realizes everything is not going to be as easy as he thought.
Santiago has to face Lina's father, Rogelio Santana, who is completely against the idea of his wedding with Lina. On the other hand Santiago finds out that his father is not the same accountant, but the assistant of a dangerous man nicknamed "El Kes" (Luis Fernando Arango), who is the key man in a huge crime organization on the Colombian Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
.
Santiago convinces his father to betray "El Kes" so he can be back to legality, but things get complicated when Santiago's father begins a relationship with El Kes' all life lover "La Bandi" (Ana Bolena Meza), after she was badly injured by El Kes.
Now, Santiago's family with La Bandi's family has to disappear and become one family with another life completely different, to join a Witnesses Protection Program
Witness protection
Witness protection is protection of a threatened witness or any person involved in the justice system, including defendants and other clients, before, during and after a trial, usually by police...
. But their hugest fear became true when El Kes escape and now he is looking for them to make them pay for betraying him.
While Lina, who has an incredible gift, being able to know things that are going to happen in the future, is sure she will find Santiago in Bogotá, so she moves there, but what she does not know is that El Kes is in Bogota, too, and he is sure that she is the ticket to find Santiago, and so Bernardo and La Bandi