| Camera: | Multi-camera |
| Runtime: | 42-45 minutes |
| Creator: | Mauricio Navas |
| Developer: | Fox Telecolombia RCN TV |
| Director: | Diego Mejía Mónica Botero |
| Executive Producer: | Óscar Guarín |
| Producer: | Amparo López Óscar Guarín |
| Starring: | Juan Sebastián Calero Rafael Novoa Flora Martínez |
| Country: | Colombia |
| Language: | Spanish |
| Network: | RCN Televisión Mundo FOX |
| Location: | Pacho Nemocón Medellín Cartagena La Guajira Puerto Gaitán Bogotá, Colombia Mexico City Los Angeles |
| Num Episodes: | 79 |
Alias El Mexicano (Aka. 'The Mexican') is a 2013 Colombian television series produced by Fox Telecolombia for RCN TV, loosely based on the story of Colombian drug lord Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha and which mixes scenes with stories and fiction. The series has been criticized for its increased focus on entirely fictional characters, taking away the spotlight from the real characters, however, the performances of Calero, Fabio Rubiano and Novoa were praised.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Starring Juan Sebastián Calero who plays Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, with Rafael Novoa, Carolina Gaitán and Flora Martínez.[8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
At 15, Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha left his town with his pride wounded when the woman he had set his sights on called him a liar for giving her a stone that was passed off as an emerald. Years later, working for the emerald businessman Gilberto Molina, he found a legitimate gem in the emerald mines that, instead of taking him to his imaginary lover, helped him buy his first shipment of marijuana in La Guajira, Colombia. Seeing the business that was opening up before his eyes, Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha understood that drug consumption in the United States could only be satisfied by setting up an industrial production chain that originated in the plains of Colombia and that in less than 5 years became the nucleus of a multinational cocaine sales company with global reach, thus becoming the true leader, behind the scenes, of the Medellín Cartel.
| Actor | Character | Real character | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Juan Sebastián Calero | Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha | ||
| Biassini Segura | Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha (Young) | ||
| Rafael Novoa | Coronel Jaime Ramírez Gómez | ||
| Fabio Rubiano | Rodrigo Lara Bonilla | ||
| Alberto Palacio | Luis Carlos Galán | ||
| Andrés Aramburo | Carlos Lehder "Charlie" | ||
| Carlos Barbosa Romero/Gerardo Calero | Fabio Ochoa Restrepo | ||
| Waldo Urrego | Comandante Javier | Jacobo Arenas | |
| Rubén Zamora | José Domingo Valencia/Ernesto Avellaneda "El Cuyanito" | Luis García "Kojak" | |
| Víctor Rodríguez | Libardo Muñoz "El Flaco" | ||
| Thaddeus Phillips | Ellis McKenzie/Barry Seal | ||
| Juan Carlos Serrano | Coronel Diego Erazo "Radar" | Coronel Hugo Martínez Poveda | |
| Rodrigo Oviedo | Miguel Ángel Félix Gallego | Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo | |
| Andrés Ogilvie | Agente Benjamin | Steve Murphy | |
| Daniel Rengifo | Freddy Rodríguez Cabiedes | Freddy Rodríguez Celades | |
| Juan David Manrique | Freddy Rodríguez Cabiedes (Joven) | ||
| Héctor García | Héctor Lineros | Víctor Manuel Linares | |
| Víctor Hugo Trespalacios | Bartolomé Ovalle | ||
| Nikolás Rincón | Julián Ruiz | ||
| Rodolfo Silva | Cabo Marco Antonio Abril | ||
| Andrés Felipe Martínez | General Dueñas | General Víctor Alberto Delgado Mallarino | |
| Walter Luengas | Mayor Ordóñez | ||
| Alfonso Otiz | Gilberto Molina | ||
| Luis Fernando Montoya | Humberto "El Ganso" Ariza | ||
| Pedro Mogollón | Pedro Pablo Rodríguez | ||
| Álvaro Rodríguez | Julio Rincón | ||
| Daniel Rocha | Comandante Jorge | ||
| Toto Vega | Arturo Valencia | ||
| Kenny Delgado | Juan Manuel Ángel | ||
| Mauricio Navas | Romeo | ||
| Andrés Castañeda | Ángel Gaitan Mahecha | ||
| Tim Janssen | Agente Joseph Celtz | ||
| Alejandro Tamayo | Capitán Sánchez | ||
| Mauiricio Cujar | Político Valderrama | ||
| Alejandro Gutiérrez | Padre Juan Carrasquilla | ||
| Saín Castro | Félix Fernández Padre | ||
| Luis Fernando Salas | Procurador Bernardo Romero (Novio de Isis) | ||
| Julio Correal | Don Adelfo | ||
| Brian Moreno | Alias "El Chulo" | ||
| Erick Cuéllar | Félix Fernández | ||
| Fernando Arango | El Mono (Traficante) | ||
| Kike Mendoza | Marco Polo | Jorge Velásquez "El Navegante" | |
| Hermes Camelo | Ferney Vesga | ||
| Guillermo Gálvez | Embajador de Estados Unidos | ||
| Diego Vásquez | Jairo Ortega | ||
| Harold De Vasten | Américo | ||
| Juan Pablo Barragán | Hermes | ||
| Luly Bossa | Verónica Rivera | ||
| Juliana Posso | Nancy Restrepo de Lara | ||
| Carolina Gaitán | Ana Belén Páez | ||
| Xilena Aycardi | Helena de Ramírez | ||
| Flora Martínez | Isis Cardona | ||
| Marcela Valencia | Benilda Arguello de Páez | ||
| Elkin Córdoba | Alonso de Jesús Baquero 'Negro Vladimir' | ||
| Jennifer Steffens | Rosa Gacha de Rodríguez | María Guadalupe Gacha Montes | |
| Manuela González | Rosmary Caviedes | Luz Mary Celades | |
| Ángela Vergara | Roxana Salamanca | ||
| Alejandro López | Alejandro Farías | ||
| Yesenia Valencia | Cecilia Calero | ||
| Consuelo Luzardo | Dueña de hacienda | ||
| Michelle Manterola | Rosario | ||
| Carolina López | Teresa de Loaiza | ||
| Víctor Hugo Ruiz | Licenciado Suárez | ||
| Héctor Mejía | Comandante guerrillero | ||
| Víctor Cifuentes | Euclides | ||
| George Slebi | Capitán del ejército | ||
| Gastón Velandia | Mayor del ejército | ||
| Andrés Soleibe | Mayor del ejército | ||
| Pedro Andrés Calvo | Byron Velázquez "Quesito" | ||
| Álvaro García | Ismael | ||
| Harold Córdoba | Humberto | ||