The True Story Behind 'Fugue State 1986'

On Dec. 4, 1986, Colombia was shaken by one of the deadliest mass killings in the country’s history. In just a few hours, former Vietnam War veteran Campo Elías Delgado murdered his mother, several neighbors, and multiple people inside the Italian restaurant Pozzetto, turning an ordinary evening Bogotá’s Chapinero district into a scene of horror.

Netflix’s limited series Fugue State 1986 (Estado de fuga 1986) , premiering 39 years after the massacre on Dec. 4, revisits the tragedy through fact and fiction. Rather than reconstructing the murders’ timeline, the series focuses on the fraught friendship between Jeremías Salgado (Andrés Parra)—a character inspired by Delgado—and literature student Camilo León (José Restrepo), who becomes a key witness to what occurs in the days leading up