Eight years after the telenovela’s original run, the highly anticipated return of the original version of Yo Soy Betty, La Fea delivered impressive ratings for the network, attracting over one million viewers, more than half a million of which were adults aged 18–49. In the United States, both the comedy-drama hit Ugly Betty and Televisa program La Fea Más Bella are based on the Colombian soap opera.Betty, la Fea re-aired on Spanish-language U.S. More than a dozen versions of the telenovela have been made in other countries. Their resolution threatens to shake the Spanish Empire.Yo soy Betty, la fea is a telenovela filmed in Colombia, written by Fernando Gaitán and produced from Octoto by the Colombian network RCN. The story arc focuses on mysteries concerning Esmeralda's long-lost mother and the man whose atrocities changed Diego's life forever. The hero must challenge a host of evildoers, branding them with the distinctive Zorro 'Z' – made from three swift scratches. She arrives in California with her sister Mariángel Sánchez de Moncada and her father, Fernando Sánchez de Moncada, the newly appointed governor-and villainous dictator-of Los Angeles. Here, Zorro falls in love with a beautiful young widow, Esmeralda Sánchez de Moncada.

Since this is a telenovela, much of the drama focuses on romantic melodrama and family intrigue. He is backed by the brotherhood of Zorro, a secret society called the Knights of the Broken Thorn. Now he lives as both a nobleman and a vigilante, fighting imperialist oppression. Remembering the injustices he saw as a child, he returned to his family's California hacienda. Instead of being a Spaniard, however, Diego is now a mestizo born in the 1790s to a white father, Don Alejandro Dela Vega, and his wife, a Native American warrior named Toypurnia, who was given the name Regina when she married Alejandro.ĭiego learned his acrobatics and fencing skills in Spain, under the tutelage of a great swordmaster. The hero, Don Diego Dela Vega, adopts the secret identity of Zorro, the masked avenger. The city is populated with gypsies, slaves, clerics, cannibals, conspirators, rebellious Indians and Amazon warriors, along with Spanish settlers, soldiers, pirates and mestizo peasants.

It shows a fantastic, ahistorical version of colonial Los Angeles full of romance, royal intrigue, and witchcraft, even polygamy. The melodrama loosely follows the retcon of Zorro from the 2005 novel by Isabel Allende, yet also uses the major characters from the 1950s Disney series.

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