The channel will broadcast Telemundo television series based on Hugo … – El Nuevo Herald

The Spanish-language channel Telemundo will broadcast the TV series about the late President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez will produce Sony with the Colombian actor Andrés Parra, who played the drug trafficker Pablo Escobar in the popular “The pattern of evil” as protagonist.

the channel for the Hispanic audience in the US reported on its website that the series will be part of its programming for next season without giving many details, but posted a picture of the promotional poster in which sees Parra and characterized as Chavez.

also transmit other series dedicated to another Chavez, the Mexican boxer Julio Cesar Chavez, who knew no defeat in 13 years.

the series ” Hugo Chavez, El Comandante “tells the story of the soldier who led a failed coup in Venezuela in February 1992 and then became the president of his country, a position he held until his death in 2013.

Telemundo accompanying information excerpts from an interview with Parra in 2014, in which he said that after Escobar, his ideal character to play would be Chavez “because it is a feast” from the point of view of the performance.

“As an actor I do not see today a more interesting one day Hugo Chavez to interpret that person. Search the origins of Hugo Chavez, which he left. As it became what it became. Is something fascinating actoralmente talking, “he said

. When last week the draft Sony, the Venezuelan government deputy Diosdado Cabello, one of the main leaders of Chavez, negatively reacted to a series became known that his view is “to hurt the memory of commander Hugo Chavez.”

Hair said it is investigating on the right of the Latin American unit of Sony Pictures Television for the series and said it should require authorization of the relatives of Chavez.

it also said that the election of Colombian actor Andrés Parra to play Chavez is a “provocation” and was confident that “imperialism has a hand in this.”

According to the specialized environment “Variety”, Sony will produce 60 episodes of an hour.

According to senior vice president and general manager of production in Latin America and Hispanics in the United States Sony, Angélica Guerra, is the “most ambitious” series that have occurred. About 600 people will work on the project, he said.