TV series Escobar, el Patrón del Mal. Montero also portrays Galán in TV Series Football Dreams, a world of passion. In TV series Tres Caínes, Galán is portrayed in a minor role by the colombian actor Walter Luengas. Galán is portrayed by actor Juan Pablo Espinosa on the 2015 Netflix drama/action series Narcos. The show is a serialized take on drug kingpin Pablo Escobar (played by Brazilian actor Wagner Moura) and the Medellín Cartel. Galan appears as a prominent figure in Ingrid Rojas Contreras's debut novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree. The protagonist, observant Chula Santiago, is seven years old when her mother Alma takes her and her sister to the fateful Galan rally. Alma was a fervent supporter of Galan, and the assassination is the first interaction Chula has with death, and it touches her deeply. See also Jorge Eliecer Gaitán, a similar Colombian Liberal Party candidate assassinated in 1948. List of unsolved murders References and notes External links Spanish Language News Report on the hitman letter Another video of the assassination (Requires QuickTime) 1943 births 1989 deaths 20th-century journalists Ambassadors of Colombia to Italy Assassinated Colombian politicians Burials at Central Cemetery of Bogotá Colombian journalists Colombian Liberal Party politicians Colombian Ministers of National Education Deaths by firearm in Colombia Filmed assassinations Male journalists Male murder victims Members of the Senate of Colombia New Liberalism (Colombia) politicians People from Bucaramanga People murdered by Colombian organized crime People murdered in Colombia Unsolved murders in South America Pontifical Xavierian University alumni 1989 in Colombia 1989 murders in South America