June has become a month of real battle on the television grid, although Netflix seemed to have every chance of losing it. Along with part 2 of season 3 of The Bridgertonsonly the Spanish series Clans was positioned as the flagship release of the platform. In competition, however, we had the arrival of the dragon house to HBO, from The Boys to Amazon Prime Video and The Acolytethe new series of Star Wars, to Disney +. But the truth is that, despite ending in such an unsatisfactory way as Iron hand, Clans is being a success. That gives us hope that a season 2 of Clans that resolves certain doubts for us.
Yes, because the end of season 1 of Clans It left us with too many questions on the table. And we have not been the only ones. After all, if this were a true story, we would only have to go to the information of what happened, but Clans is an original work by the famous screenwriter Jorge Guerricaecheverría. It had no real basis, or at least that’s what we thought until recently. First, those who discovered the parallels of the plot with real stories of Galician traffic emerged.
To begin with, there is the name of the clan, Padín. Manuel Fernández Padín was a crucial witness in Operation Nécora, which in 1990 led to the imprisonment of Laureano Oubiña, one of the great Galician drug traffickers. The series, however, has taken his surname for a very different role from that of the informer hero. The Padín of the series has more in common with Sito Miñanco, who worked in an Andalusian prison while serving his third grade. His story, however, is told to us in Flour.
But the real true story of Clans It is another, and it has to do with its protagonists and their love plot.
The real story behind ‘Clans’
We repeat, Clans It is not officially based on any true story and has no intention of historical accuracy, but its parallels with the story of Tania Valera and David Pérez Lago are evident. Their story began in 2005. She was a promising lawyer who was assigned to Cambados to run the Women’s Information Centre, a space for the care of victims of gender violence. However, shortly after she left and set up her own office, where she met David Pérez Lago, stepson of a Laureaño Oubiña who was in prison. They both fell in love and, while he tried to gain control after the power vacuum left by the arrests of his stepfather or Miñanco, she delved into his business. In 2013 Tania Valera was convicted of money laundering and ties to drug trafficking, more or less the same thing that Clara Lago’s character does in the series.
However, the most interesting twist in the story is that Tania defended her innocence against all odds, but when no court agreed with her and she was sentenced to seven years in prison and a fine of more than 300 million euros. , fled. She disappeared and earned an arrest warrant. But Tania’s story continues with even more potential for future seasons. After David, she left with Alfonso Díaz Moñux, another lawyer linked to Galician drug traffickers, and who was killed by two hitmen in her car when he was with her. Valera managed to be on the run for more than five years, being the only woman among Europol’s 70 most wanted fugitives. She was finally arrested in Sitges, where she was under a false identity and she had a daughter. David was released from prison but was caught red-handed again in 2018 as part of Operation Myth.
Come on, it’s not just a story that has similarities with Clansbut it can give us clues about where season 2 could end up after leaving us with a pregnant Ana on the run and Daniel in jail. If it is the case that reality surpasses fiction more often than we think.
