Taita Boves

TAITA BOVES chronicles a thirst for revenge that devastated a country It tells the true story of Jose Tomás Boves a cruel man who became a legend during the Venezuelan War of Independence the most violent in the Americas He went from seafarer to pirate horse smuggler to prosperous merchant prisoner to military chief Spanish by birth he spearheaded a grass roots troop of slaves mulattoes Indians and mestizos that crushed Simón Bolívar and his patriot army Respectfully referred to as Taita by them he fought for the underprivileged and the poorest of the poor and curtailed three centuries of order in this colonial region This film is about his passions and power his loves and misadventures and a bloody saga that rocked Venezuela