Loving Pablo

About the movie

In 1981, Virginia Vallejo is a famous Colombian journalist and TV news anchorwoman who is invited to a VIPs party in the ranch of Pablo Escobar, a low-born man who gained money and power with drug trafficking together with his friends, turning them into the new generation of rich men of the country. Seduced by his charisma, Virginia starts a passionate love affair with Escobar despite him being a family man married to María Victoria. During the 80's, Escobar becomes famous in his try to better the life of the poor invMedellín and raising a political career in Colombia's congress, but Virginia starts to understand Escobar's real power controlling an empire of crime in Colombia and spreading his drug in all of the USA. It causes DEA agent Shepard to take interest in his business and in Virginia, contacting her anf looking for a way to stop him. With the President Belisario Betancur striking an alliance with the USA to stop Escobar and extradite him to be judged outside Colombia, which ignites a war in the country to eliminate all his enemies, politicians and non-politicians, unleashing his thirst for blood and his ambition to rule everything. Virginia, seeing that her career and her reputation are destroyed by Escobar, faces an extreme situation: to die at the hands of Escobar or by his enemies as an act of reprisal, or save herself helping Shepard to stop Escobar before he kills her.—Chockys