Doña Bárbara is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Hugo León Ferrer for Telemundo in 2008-09. It is based on the Venezuelan novel Doña Bárbara written by Rómulo Gallegos in 1929. As with most of its soap operas, the network broadcast English subtitles as closed captions on CC3 until late October, when the network canceled the translations. This show was the first to regain the subtitles when captions were restored in late March, 2009. Edith González, Christian Meier and Génesis Rodríguez star as the protagonists, Katie Barberi and Arap Bethke as co-protagonists.