El Chivo

El Chivo
Created by	Mario Vargas Llosa
Based on	The Feast of the Goat
Written by	Humberto "Kiko" Olivieri
Starring	Julio Bracho Eileen Moreno Iván Arana Diana Hoyos
Opening theme	"La fiesta del Chivo"
Country of origin	Colombia Mexico United States
Original language(s)	Spanish
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	70
Production
Executive producer(s)	Hugo León Ferrer
Location(s)	Barranquilla, Colombia Dominican Republic
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	42-45 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	UniMás
Picture format	480i SDTV, 1080i HDTV
Audio format	Stereophonic
Original run	September 23, 2014 (2014-09-23) – December 31, 2014

El Chivo, is a telenovela produced by RTI Producciones and Televisa for United States-based television network Univisión and for Colombia-based television network Caracol Television. It is an adaptation of the book La fiesta del Chivo (The Feast of the Goat) from Mario Vargas Llosa based on the history of Dominican Dictator, Rafael Trujillo.^{[1] [2] [3]}The telenovela began filming in May 2014.^[4]

Plot

Rafael Leónidas Trujillo is a cattle thief. On a confusing event, he meets Mariana Durán, his current wife, who saved him from death. Some time later, Rafael enters the army and forges a career of several years that leads him to the rank of general. From this position, he forges a coup against the dictator at the time, Eusebio Porras. After an interim period in the governing military junta, Trujillo took power after a suspicious Dominican election that had him winning over a lot of opponents (students and guerrillas).^[5]

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