![]() ![]() Such a premise has been endlessly repeated in soap operas. Café, con aroma de mujer was one of the most successful Colombian TV shows of all time. Villains, misunderstandings, and tragedies separate them, but in the end (spoiler alert) their love wins and they get married. At one such plantation, she meets Sebastian, the rich and handsome heir of a well-to-do family. ![]() Given its success, it is strange to think that the premise of Café is fairly simple, and somewhat predictable: A poor young woman nicknamed Gaviota travels around looking for work at coffee plantations. The soap is the second most-watched program in the country, right behind Ugly Betty, which in 2010 was declared by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most successful soap opera of all time (both soap operas were written by the now-acclaimed Fernando Gaitan). Few, however, have ever reached the status of Café, as Colombians affectionately refer to it. Some achieve wild success, some get lost in the jumble of television channels that constantly churn out novelas like very well-oiled machines. Now, soap operas in Latin America come and go. The cause? A soap opera called Café, con aroma de mujer (Coffee, With the Scent of a Woman). Foreigners might be confused, but locals knew the reason, most likely because they were partaking in it themselves. The city, which at most other times is a constant bustle of traffic jams, street vendors, buses, and pedestrians, would be relatively quiet, almost at a standstill. If you were to walk the streets of Bogotá at 8:00pm in 1994, you would have been confronted by a strange sight. ![]()
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