Tres Caínes

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| camera = Multi-camera

| runtime = 42-45 minutes

| creator = Gustavo Bolívar
Yesmer Uribe

| developer = RTI Producciones
RCN TV

| director = Mauricio Cruz
Carlos Gaviria

| executive_producer = Hugo León Ferrer

| producer = Manuel Vargas
Madeleine Contreras

| starring = Gregorio Pernía
Elkin Díaz
Julián Román

| theme_music_composer =

| country = Colombia

| language = Spanish

| network = RCN Televisión
Mundo FOX

| location = Bogotá, Colombia

| first_aired = {{start date|2013|3|4}}

| last_aired = {{end date|2013|6|18}}

| num_episodes = 80

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Los Tres Caínes (The 3 Cains) is a 2013 Spanish-language TV Series produced by RTI Producciones for Colombia-based television network RCN TV and United States–based television network MundoFox. Based on the story of the Colombian paramilitary leaders Carlos Castaño, Vicente Castaño and Fidel Castaño. It stars Julián Román, Elkin Díaz and Gregorio Pernía. It was released on March 4, 2013, and ended on June 18 of the same year.{{Cite web |date=2015-09-24 |title=Hoy se estrena 'Tres Caínes', la historia de los hermanos Castaño {{!}} El País - Noticias de Cali, Valle y Colombia |url=http://www.elpais.com.co/elpais/entretenimiento/noticias/hoy-estrena-tres-caines-historia-hermanos-castano |access-date=2024-11-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924051001/http://www.elpais.com.co/elpais/entretenimiento/noticias/hoy-estrena-tres-caines-historia-hermanos-castano |archive-date=24 September 2015 }} It is an adapted story by the Castaño brothers, based on the research of their librettist, Gustavo Bolívar.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2013-04-17 |title='Con Tres Caínes he perdido plata': Gustavo Bolívar |url=https://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/CMS-12747031 |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=El Tiempo |language=spanish}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2013-03-03 |title=Se estrena 'Tres caínes', la perdición de un trío de hermanos |url=https://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/CMS-12631818 |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=El Tiempo |language=spanish}} A week after its release, and following a movement of citizens (mostly victims of paramilitarism) on social networks, who under the slogan #noen3caines protested for considering it a purely commercial exploitation of violence,http://www.razonpublica.com/index.php/cultura/artes-y-cultura/3616-los-tres-caines-apologia-de-los-senores-de-la-guerra.html after this, some brands withdrew their advertising from the series.{{Cite web |date=2013-03-16 |title=Manifestación ciudadana hace que Auteco retire su pauta en Tres Caínes |url=https://www.elcolombiano.com/historico/tres_caines_auteco_retira_su_pauta_por_presiones_en_manifestaciones_ciudadanas-AEEC_233726 |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=El Colombiano |language=es-ES}}

The series has been criticized by academics, journalists, human rights defenders, victims of paramilitarism and state crimes, and citizens outraged by its lack of rigor and its dialogues that re-victimize various social sectors that were victims of this illegal armed force created by the brothers Vicente, Fidel and Carlos Castaño Gil, around whom the production revolves,{{Cite web |last= |date=2013-03-15 |title=Debate sobre "Los Tres Caínes" llega a los anunciantes |url=https://verdadabierta.com/los-tres-caines/ |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=VerdadAbierta.com |language=es-CO}} similar to a controversy over alleged support for drug trafficking in the series Pablo Escobar, The Drug Lord.{{Cite web |last=Bonilla |first=Daniel |date=2013-03-25 |title=La polémica sobre Los Tres Caínes: ¿de quién es la culpa? |url=https://razonpublica.com/la-polemica-sobre-los-tres-caines-ide-quien-es-la-culpa/ |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=Razón Pública |language=es}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2013-11-20 |title=ELESPECTADOR.COM |url=https://www.elespectador.com/opinion/columnistas/mauricio-rubio/lo-bueno-del-patron-del-mal-y-los-tres-caines-column-459580/ |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=ELESPECTADOR.COM |language=spanish}} At the same time, the Diocese of Quibdó also criticized the series for not highlighting the role of the Church during the Bojayá Massacre.

At the same time, the series has been strongly criticized by Jesús Ignacio Roldán Pérez 'Monoleche', one of the most notorious ex-paramilitaries of the AUC, and at one time a high-ranking member. The series shows events that according to 'Monoleche' he seriously claims did not happen in real life, and that these scenes caused him problems with his relatives and especially with his minor children at that time.{{Cite web |last=Caribe |first=Alerta |date=2020-11-28 |title=Jesús Ignacio Roldán llega a El Retén para apoyar a la población afectada por el fuerte invierno |url=https://www.alertacaribe.com/noticias/magdalena/jesus-ignacio-roldan-llega-el-reten-para-apoyar-la-poblacion-afectada-por-el |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=www.alertacaribe.com |language=spanish}} highlighting the scene of a young Monoleche (played by Sebastián Rendón) disturbed by the severed arm of a peasant, and swore to sue Gustavo Bolívar.{{Cite web |last= |date=2013-06-27 |title=Alias 'Monoleche' demandará a libretista de 'Tres Caínes' |url=https://verdadabierta.com/alias-monoleche-dice-que-demandara-a-libretista-de-tres-caines/ |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=VerdadAbierta.com |language=es-CO}}

Julián Román, who played Carlos Castaño, received death threats shortly before the premiere of the series and expressed his rejection of paramilitarism and its manual for making its victims disappear.{{Cite web |last=Rivera |first=Por Jimmy Nomesqui |date=2023-06-01 |title=Julián Román reveló que recibió amenazas por encarnar a Carlos Castaño |url=https://www.infobae.com/colombia/2023/06/01/julian-roman-revelo-que-recibio-amenazas-por-encarnar-a-carlos-castano/ |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=infobae |language=es-ES}}