La Mujer del Presidente

La Mujer del Presidente
Title card
Genre	Drama
Created by	Mauricio Miranda (original idea) Mauricio Navas (original idea)
Written by	Mauricio Miranda Mauricio Navas
Directed by	Magdalena La Rotta
Starring	Róbinson Díaz Sandra Reyes Jorge Cao Elluz Peraza
Country of origin	Colombia
Original language	Spanish
No. of episodes	63
Production
Producer	Diana Bustamante
Production locations	Bogotá, Colombia
Editor	Sebastián Hernández Z.
Camera setup	Multicamera
Running time	45 minutes
Production company	Caracol Televisión
Original release
Network	Canal 1 Caracol
Release	July 17, 1997 (1997-07-17) – October 10, 1998 (1998-10-10)

La mujer del presidente (in English The wife of the president) was a 1997 Colombian TV Series produced and broadcast by Caracol Televisión

Plot

Carlos Alberto Buendía, a systems engineer, works at the Concorde Persona airline, and apparently his life is almost perfect; He is secretly married to his girlfriend Adriana Guerrero, a law student and airline receptionist, for which he obtains a bank loan to buy an apartment and for both of them to have a life together. About to get a promotion, Susana Vivas de Acero, wife of Francisco de Paula Acero, powerful womanizer and corrupt president of the airline, appears in Carlos Alberto's life. Susana tries to seduce Carlos Alberto and about to have sex at Carlos Alberto's house, Susana suddenly dies. Terrified by what happened, Carlos Alberto fearing losing everything he has achieved, buries the corpse on the outskirts of the city, being the beginning of a chain of misfortunes in the life of Buendía who ends up in jail for a crime he did not commit and he must to probe his innocence in the midst of a corrupt justice (where he is guilty until proven otherwise) and where his family and close friends will be in danger of death. The story follows these movements: 1) Carlos Alberto's life before and after Susana's death. 2) His capture and stay in jail with his friend Víctor Leal, both being harassed by the corrupt jailer captain Hugo Escobar. 3) The jailbreak and hiding. 4) His relationship with Robin. 5) The help of the chief thief Villanueva. 6) His faked death of him. 7) His recapture and subsequent judgment.

Cast

• Robinson Diaz.....Carlos Alberto Buendia
• Cristina Umaña ... Robin
• Sandra Reyes.....Adriana Guerrero
• Elluz Peraza.....Susana de Acero (commits suicide)
• Jorge Cao.....Francisco de Paula Acero
• Marlon Moreno.....Victor Leal (murdered by Captain Escobar)
• Silvio Angel.....Julio Buendia (Carlos Alberto's father)
• Ana Maria Arango.....Emperatriz Serrano de Buendia (Carlos Alberto's mother)
• Lucy Martinez.....Beatriz 'Betty' (Adriana's mother)
• Roberto Cano.....Andrés Acero (son of Francisco de Paula and Susana)
• Rafael Martinez.....Paulino Díaz
• Celmira Luzardo.....Luz de Caballero
• Waldo Urrego.....Captain Hugo Escobar
• Fabio Rubiano.....Rigoberto Bernal

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