CHINCHINá (COLOMBIA) – Dozens of peasants wearing face masks remain immobile under the baking midday sun in a coffee plantation in central Colombia.
Suddenly a voice shouts out: “Face masks off, we’re going to roll!”
Colombia’s popular daytime soap operas — known as telenovelas in Latin America — were forced off the screens by the coronavirus pandemic.
But after six months of silence, they are back in all their steamy and corny glory — kisses included.
Filmed in the central-western Caldas region “Coffee with the Scent of a Woman” is operating under strict restrictions in terms of staffing capacity, the use of masks, personal protective equipment and regular Covid-19…