Machos

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The series debuted on Canal 13 in Chile on March 10, 2003. It ended its original run on October 27, 2003, after one season and 163 episodes in its original Chilean version. The international version (syndicated or not in Spanish) has 151 episodes.

Plot
The patriarch of this family is Ángel Mercader, a retired doctor, sexistand manipulative, who is married to a sweet woman named Valentina. The couple has seven sons, all men, whose ages range from 40 years old to 18 years old. The seven sons must face the authoritarianism established by their father throughout the novela:
 * The first of them, Alonso Mercader, is the eldest; He is a successful architect who has had trouble coping with the death of his wife until he meets Sonia, a humble seller in Concón, unaware that she has been her father's lover for twelve years. Because he is his eldest, his brothers consider him as a second father.
 * Armando is the only one of Don Ángel's sons who is married at the beginning of the story, and he suffers a serious marital crisis when he loses his job and must return to his son, Andrés (affectionately called 'Andresito', that is, 'little Andrés'), and his wife, Consuelo, to his parents' house. Subsequently, Armando must face his own prejudices when his wife becomes the breadwinner of the family until he meets Pilar, a mother of a child who is a friend of his son Andrés, this makes them both fall in love with each other.
 * Ariel is the third son. He returns to Chile after living ten years in Barcelona, Spain, in order to recover his relationship with his family, who are unaware that his father expelled him from the family for his homosexuality (very frowned upon in the conservative thinking of Chile at the end of the 20th century, for religious reasons). Ironically, being the black sheep of the family, he has fulfilled the great dream of his father, since he is a cardiologist.
 * Adán is his father's favorite son and has also dedicated himself to a medical career, but he is a gynecologist. He later falls in love with Fernanda, for which he must face Álex and his own sexual traumas that keep him a virgin at the age of 26.
 * Álex is the son in the middle. He is a womanizing man who owns a beach bar, and never wanted to study at the University. He tries to win over Fernanda, a teacher who works at his parents' house, while having a furtive romance with Mónica, the girlfriend of his best friend Benjamín, and another third parallel relationship with Soraya, an employee at his parents' house.
 * Amaro is another of the sons. An architecture student at the university, a very responsible man who falls madly in love with one of his professors, Isabel Fuller, who is twenty years older than him. To hide this secret, Amaro becomes a partner with Manuela, a college classmate who is in love with him and knows nothing of her real feelings.
 * Finally Antonio, is the youngest of all the brothers and the most rebellious. Antonio is an irresponsible young man who is in his last year of secondary education and who falls in love with Madonna, the daughter of a maid (en Chile, realmente es un trabajador doméstico), but he will also have to put up with the constants flirtations of Kiara.

Broadcast
The telenovela was extremely successful in its country of origin. The series was also broadcast on television channels in Latin America such as Argentina, Ecuador, Uruguay and Venezuela. But, in most of these countries, the series was broadcast with a dubbing into Latin American Spanish. This is because the accent is characterized by its speed, by the enormous use of idioms typical of the country, and other peculiarities that make it unique, and often difficult to understand for other Latin Americans.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, and ironically, the telenovela was only broadcast in its original audio in Spain.

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