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Inés de Hinojosa (1540-1571) was a Venezuelan hacendada. Born in Barquisimeto, in the Province of Venezuela of the Spanish Empire, she was raised and first married in Carora. She was executed for a crime of passion in Tunja in 1571. Her case constituted one of the greatest scandals of the Kingdom of New Granada and Venezuela. Its history was written for the first time by Juan Rodríguez Freyle in chapter X of El Carnero where he recounted the events between 1560 and 1571. In 1864, it was rewritten by Temístocles Avella Mendoza in Los tres Pedros en la red de Inés de Hinojosa. The story was also revived in 1986 by the Colombian writer Próspero Morales Pradilla in Los pecados de Inés de Hinojosa (The Sins of Inés de Hinojosa). Best seller of the year, the novel was made into a television series (The Sins of Inés de Hinojosa) in 1988.