La Viuda de la Mafia," or ''Widow of the Mob," Diana Montes thinks she's going on a rustic second honeymoon, but her family is pursued into the jungle by authorities, who kill her husband in a dramatic shoot-out.
Initially convinced he was an innocent victim, the glamorous mother of two, with the help of an amorous detective, gradually comes to realize that her husband was using his respectable aviation and construction business as a front to transport drugs and launder money.
Since its debut last fall, the nightly soap has taken Colombian prime-time audiences by storm. Its producers recently sold Miami-based Univision the rights to broadcast the program to Spanish-speaking audiences across the United States.