Los Protegidos

Los Protegidos (The Protected or The Sheltered) is a Colombian telenovela aired from May 6, 2008, to January 29, 2009, on Colombian TV network RCN. This telenovela is produced by Teleset and it was created as a counterweight for Caracol Televisión's new production El cartel (TV series), but it was premiered before this last one in order to get a higher impact in the viewers. Story The day that Santiago Puerta (Mark Tacher) comes back from Italy, after getting a graduated degree in crime investigation, he is sure his future is brilliant, after getting his dream job in La Fiscalia (Investigation Bureau in Colombia). Finally he will be able to compensate his father, Bernardo Puerta (Carlos Barbosa), the huge effort he had put into funding his son's career as a lawyer and then as an expert in crime investigation. In Italy, Santiago meets Lina Santana (Veronica Orozco), his better half, classmate and then his fiancée, but when he comes back to Colombia he realizes everything is not going to be as easy as he thought.