Crime Diaries: The Candidate
Crime Diaries: The Candidate is a Spanish-language Mexican biographical crime television miniseries starring Martín Altomaro, Norma Angélica and Enrique Arreola. The plot is inspired by real-life events with real-life footage inter-cutting with the drama, and revolves around the assassination in Tijuana of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio from Mexico's ruling PRI party in 1994. The series follows a pair of detectives and Luis's dying widow Diana Laura as they investigate to unravel the truth.
It was ordered direct-to-series, and premiered on Netflix on March 22, 2019.
Cast
- Martín Altomaro as Raúl Salinas de Gortari
- Norma Angélica as Maria Luisa Martínez
- Enrique Arreola as Manuel Camacho Solís
- Ari Brickman as Carlos Salinas de Gortari
- Alejandro Cuétara as Jorge Mancillas
- Hernan Del Riego as Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León
- Alberto Guerra as Comandante Federico Benítez
- Jorge Antonio Guerrero as Mario Aburto
- Daniel Haddad as Agente Solis
- Jorge A. Jiménez as Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta
- Orlando Moguel as Octavio
- Lisa Owen as Madre Superiora
- Ilse Salas as Diana Laura Riojas de Colosio
- Gustavo Sánchez Parra as Comandante David Rubí Sánchez
- Marco Treviño as Miguel Montes
- Evaristo Valverde as Vicente Mayoral
- Carolina Molva as Monja Joven
- Everardo Arzate as Liebano Saénz