Word of the day: Sin Tetas No hay Paraiso- Without tits there is no paradise.
Last years Novela (soap opera) mega hit has been Sin Tetas No hay Paraiso. A bit of a surprise since most Novelas in Latin-America are sugar coated romance tales, with impossibly cheesy storylines. Sin Tetas No hay Paraiso is look in to the drug world from the point of view of a poor girl from Periera. Armed with nothing but her good looks and ambition she sets off to improve her breast size and in the process her fortune. Looking to attract a traqueto (a high ranking mafia drug lord) she gets a used breast implants, and proceeds to prostitute herself up the ladder of traqueto importance. Until she is lucky enough to land one who is willing to marry her. Add to the story a rape, an illegal abortion (Well there is no such thing as a legal abortion in Colombia), her brother becoming a murderer for hire, her mother running off with her only true love, and her marriage to a short, bald and unattractive man. And you have a mega hit.
“The only thing school is good for is to make the owners of schools rich.”
Sin Tetas, as it is commonly called, exposes every level of corruption from the government officials to US embassy officials, systematically as the story unfolds. It doesn’t try to be a morality tale in the traditional Novela sense, heavy handed and moralistic, but rather shows consequences for the decisions that all the characters make. It is so well done that I could write about each chapter of how the story unfolds, showing the reality of many Colombians stuck in a underclass that is not allowed to advance to the middle class. It is shot not in the most attractive areas of Colombia but rather the real neighborhoods in which working class people live. With actors that truly represent the racial and ethnic diversity Colombia has, it is the most realistic Novela I have seen. Oh did I mention it has nudity?
“Americans have a lifelong taste (for cocaine), and we have a lifelong business”
Sin Tetas, reveals chapter by chapter how Colombia has suffered due to the worlds nasty coke habit। Yep, the easy money that is shelled out every night by your friend with a taste for blow is destroying Colombia. It might sound a bit heavy handed but I can assure you that while we have always had a difficult and violent civil war, you add hundreds of millions of dollars and you can only make worse. Your drug problem has become a whole countries And it is contributing to the degradation of a whole country. I know it sounds heavy handed and preachy but you experience certain things long enough and you come to that conclusion.
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