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 Ten friends get in the illegal drugs business, thinking it is the fastest way to become rich, but it is not going to have a happy ending because in this business, everything vanishes in the end.
The illegal drugs traffic world seems to be really attractive for
fifteen years-old Martín Gonzales, an
ambitious and bold young man, coming from a middle-class Colombian
family. Martín asks his friend, Pepe Cadena played by Diego Cadavid, to
talk to his brother to get him a job in the dangerous business.
Ignoring this choosing is just the beginning of a turbulent and
troubled life that is going to change his fate forever, Martín alias
"Fresita" gets a job in a drugs lab sponsored by the big boss Óscar
Cadena. Martín learns really fast and he starts to
send illegal drugs to the United States, while his boss makes an
alliance with the Villegas Brothers, from the West Cartel, to take down
the biggest drug dealer ever: Pablo Escobar.
With Escobar down, a new cartel is up: The Pacific Cartel, the most
dangerous in Colombia, led by Óscar Cadena, so Óscar (the teacher) and
Martín (the student) make a pact of friendship and business.
Martín becomes a rich man and he falls for Sofía, a
beautiful woman, but he gets her heart by lying to her. But Sofía
discovers the origin of Martín's wealth and he has to choose: Sofía or
the business.
Óscar helps the police to finish the West Cartel. The snitches (sapos)
make the war between these criminal machineries to reach a point of
breaking.
Martín refuses to take part in this war and decides to go to Miami with
Sofía and his children, but what he does not know is that it is not a
safe place anymore, and he must keep going with the old illegal
activities, watching his old friends die by the enemy.
Business partners and brothers dead or caught, forces Martín to run to
Mexico looking for protection. He realizes too late that in this
business; you can never win...
El cartel de los sapos - tv series
(2008 - 2009) - Manolo Cardona, Karen Martínez
CAST
Manolo Cardona ... Martín Gonzales
Karen Martínez ... Sofía
Diego Cadavid ... Pepe Cadena
Róbinson Díaz ... El Cabo
Joavany Alvarez ... Silvio Mendez
Daniel McEvoy ... FBI Agent #2
James McEvoy ... U.S. Federal Judge
Gabriel Morales ... Tony
Juan Carlos Arango ... Buñuelo
Julián Arango ... Gaudaña
Fernando Arevalo ... Julio Trujillo
Natalia Betancurt ... Juliana
Juliana Galvis ... Eliana
John Gertz ... Sam Mattews
Armando Gutierrez ... David Paz
Santiago Moure ... Don Mario
Andrés Parra ... Anestesia
Juan Pablo Raba ... Pirulito
Sandra Reyes ... Amparo Cadena
Fernando Solórzano ... Oscar Cadena
Nataly Umaña ... Juanita
Jimmy Vasquez ... Revólver
Luis Velasco ... Samuel Morales
Writing credits
Juan Camilo Ferrand
Andrés Lopez (original idea)
Cinematography by
Juan Pablo Puentes
Edgar Gil
Germán Plata
Language : Spanish
Country: Colombia
Directed by
Luis Alberto Restrepo
Produced by
Cristina Palacio
Amparo Gutiérrez
Canal Caracol
Telemundo Studios
Trivia
Based on the book of Andrés López, alias Florecita (a former drug dealer), who wrote the book during his years in prison
As of July 2008, El Cartel was the highest rated show on Colombian television
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