Valentina Acosta plays Mauricio Henao's mother in the show, in real life, Valentina is only five years older than Mauricio.
Mexican actor Rafael Amaya (Aurelio Casillas) also portrays the same character in the Telemundo Studios series El Señor de los Cielos (2013), El Chema (2016) and the Netflix series Queen of the South (2016), his character being based on real-life drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes who was known as "The Lord of the Skies" because of the fleet of planes he used to transport drugs. Fuentes died in a Mexican hospital in July 1997 after undergoing extensive plastic surgery in an attempt to alter his appearance.