La Pola (TV series)

La Pola is a Colombian drama telenovela based on historical facts and directed by Sergio Cabrera for RCN Televisión.

[1] The series tells the political and loving life of Policarpa Salavarrieta Ríos,a woman who became one of the most important figures in the history of the Independence of Colombia for preferring death instead of submission.

There is a struggle for the independence of the Spaniards and for trying to organize an army to defend the nascent country that is not yet called Colombia and freedom.

La Pola, a valiant and visionary woman, with libertarian ideals and equality; A woman advanced to those times where prevailing machismo and rigid social hierarchies prevent the female gender from having even a voice but La Pola is the opposite does not remain silent on anything that has to do with a macho order.

La Pola will live a stormy, painful and passionate romance with Alejo Sabaraín, son of arribista and ambitious Spanish and a creole, a man prohibited for her in all aspects, for its ancestry, for being chapetón and also to belong to the armies of the Spanish Crown ; In short, a relationship that is seen as a sin and a transgression of the colonial order.