News of a Kidnapping

[1] People presume that Maruja was kidnapped because her sister is Gloria Pachón, widow of the journalist and New Liberalism founder Luis Carlos Galán.

They include editor Azucena Liévano, writer Juan Vitta, and camera operators Richard Becerra and Orlando Acevedo.

The kidnappings on 18 September 1990 of Marina Montoya and Francisco Santos Calderón, editor in chief of El Tiempo newspaper, are also recounted.

"If you want to understand my situation, read Gabriel Garcia Marquez's News of a Kidnapping", Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi was quoted as having said in a meeting with his daughters in September 2011.

A Colombian-Chilean co-production, it is directed by Julio Jorquera Arriagada and Andrés Wood, and stars Cristina Umaña as Maruja Pachón, Juan Pablo Raba as Alberto Villamizar and Majida Issa as Diana Turbay.