Its protagonist, Rafael Amaya, who gives life to drug trafficker Aurelio Casillas, said that the drug trafficking “It is a reality that we are living and that we cannot cover with our finger”, however they seek to “soften” this issue through fiction.
“Why don’t you tell the newscasts not to broadcast this news?Amaya questioned.
AMLO criticized last Tuesday the production of series on drug trafficking in his speech at the end of the North American Leaders Summit with his American counterpart, Joe Biden, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
“Everything related to gangs became public fame, there are even series on organized crime, and it is like an apology for what is desirable”censured Andrés López Obrador when questioned about the recent arrest of Ovidio Guzmán, one of the sons of Joaquín “el Chapo” Guzmán most wanted by the United States.
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AMLO He disdained that these productions show how drug traffickers live in “extremely luxurious houses”, drive “latest model cars” and demonstrate their power “by picking up the phone and speaking to a police chief, a military chief or the president himself”.
The Colombian actress Maricela González poses during the red carpet of the series “El Señor de los Cielos”, in Mexico City (Mexico).
This series that premiered in 2013 and will premiere its eighth season, is inspired by the life of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, a Mexican drug trafficker who earned the nickname “The Lord of the heavens” for the fleet of planes he used to distribute his drugs.
The red carpet for the presentation of the new season in the center of Mexico City was attended by Rafael Amaya, Carmen Aub, África Zavala and Iván Arana, the Cubans Isabella Castillo and Rubén Cortada or the Colombian Yuri Vargas.
On the other hand, other of the protagonists of the series highlighted that the new season manages to show in a more reliable way the life of drug traffickers and those who surround them, without exalting their figure.
“Without losing the essence of the action, the sensuality of the characters, we are going to touch more on the reality of the families that live in the midst of the drug traffickers, their daily lives.”, specified Carmen Aub.
In the opinion of Isabella Castillo, “The most beautiful thing about the season is that it does not put the drug traffickers as superheroes, but raw life”.
This eighth season, which will premiere on January 17, was written by Venezuelan Luis Zelcowicz and directed by a group of directors, including Mexican Mauricio Meneses.
“I don’t think (that the series is drug culture). It is a story, there is love, melodrama, and one should not be mixed with the other.”, concluded Meneses.
With information from the EFE Agency.
