In this hilarious historical satire, Santiago Miranda (Robinson Díaz) is a soap opera star who portrays Simón Bolívar, the great South American general and liberator. When Santiago finds too many discrepancies between the script and reality, he storms off the show, vowing to rewrite the remaining episodes so they more accurately reflect history.

Obsessed to the point of delusion, he believes that he is actually an incarnation of Bolívar himself, and attempts to complete Bolívar's unfulfilled dream of creating La Gran Colombia, a unified state of five Latin American countries. As in Bolívar’s life, Santiago’s never dying passion for Manuela Sáenz will have an impact on this mission.

Triana creates a humorous parody of the classic soap opera melodrama — by ironically looking to the past, he reveals the conflicted Latin America of today. A Venevision International Release.

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