Viveros Alliance

**Highest Ranked**: Marina (Winner/32)

The Viveros Alliance (also known as the *Post-Switch Casaya Alliance*) is an alliance in Survivor: Panama.

An extremely dominant alliance on the most dominant original tribe of *Panama*, the Viveros Alliance became the majority alliance at the merge and produced the seasons Sole Survivor.

## History

### On Viveros

On Day 1 of Survivor: Panama, a tight alliance of four is created between Cody, Domenic, Katrina and Marina on the original Viveros tribe. The group needed more members in order to become the majority alliance, but they couldn't decide who they wanted to align with. The boys chose Liam and they made a Final Three deal, whilst the girls brought in Catherine. This left Matthew and Rachel as outsiders on the tribe. The Viveros tribe was extremely strong, winning all four immunity challenges they had together. The original group of four agreed that Liam was a stronger physical asset for the pre-merge, and began to distance themselves from Catherine. When she began to realise that the Viveros Alliance were ignoring her, she and Domenic had a huge fight.

### On Casaya

At the tribe dissolve, Domenic, Katrina, Liam and Marina were all placed on the purple Casaya tribe. Without Cody, the four needed to include a number of other castaways in order to become the majority alliance. They chose people from every original tribe, including Bianca, Erinn, Lana and Tison. At the Double Tribal Council on Day 9, this large group of eight eliminated Catherine to silence the original troubles of the Viveros Alliance. As Casaya continued to win immunity challenges, a friendship formed between Bianca, Katrina, Marina and Tison. At their next loss on Day 15, the Viveros Alliance continued their powerful reign by eliminating Natalia.

The increased members of the Viveros Alliance meant that the original quartet weren't as tight knit as before. Domenic and Liam became paranoid that Katrina and Marina wouldn't want to work with them anymore. In response, they decided to form their own small alliance with Erinn and Lana. On Day 18, Casaya had to attend another Double Tribal Council and vote out two castaways. The eight members of the Viveros Alliance eliminated Matthew first before Domenic and Liam brought in Erinn, Lana, Rachel and Spencer to blindside Tison. Domenic and Liam, despite not keeping the girls in the loop at the last vote, didn't want their names thrown around. At Casaya's next tribal council, the new majority eliminated Bianca.

    With Tison and Bianca now gone, Domenic and Liam made amends to the girls and reunited the Viveros Four. Lana at the previous vote didn't vote to eliminate Bianca because of their friendship, so the Viveros Four convinced the rest of the tribe to unanimously eliminate Lana at tribal council. The Viveros Alliance sensed an impending merge and felt they couldn't keep Rachel because she would flip on them at the merge. At the Day 30 Double Tribal Council, the Viveros Alliance eliminated Rachel without telling Spencer.

### On Gitanos

On Day 32, the two tribes merged. Cody reunited with his Viveros Alliance allies and convinced them to work with the Casaya Alliance whom he worked with during the tribe switch. Together, the two alliances worked together to eliminate Sarah. This was only temporary because the alliances then went their separate ways and attempted to garner allies to target each other. The Viveros Alliance went after Alexis, but they were unsuccessful and Katrina was blindsided by the Casaya Alliance. Fearing her alliance was going to crumble, Marina bonded with Alexis and Erinn who flipped the previous tribal council. Cody believed that Oliver was the glue holding the Casaya Alliance together and, with the help of Alexis and Erinn, he was eliminated.

Spencer began to feel isolated from the Viveros Alliance, and they felt he was no longer valuable to the alliance and they blindsided him. With the numbers and a tight group where no one was seen as a flipper, the Viveros Alliance systematically eliminated Axel, Hayden and Hunter. At the Final Seven, it appeared that Darcy would be eliminated as the only remaining member of the Casaya Alliance. However, the Viveros Alliance had to turn on one of their own because Darcy won individual immunity. The Viveros Alliance considered eliminating Erinn, though this soon changed when Cody, Domenic and Marina brought in Erinn to turn on Liam. Darcy was then voted out when she didn't win individual immunity.

At the Final Five, Alexis won immunity so it appeared that Cody, Domenic and Marina as the founders of the Viveros Alliance would look after each other and instead vote for Erinn. However, Marina was worried that she would get voted out by the boys if Alexis won the final immunity challenge. She told Alexis and Erinn that she was willing to vote for Cody, with Domenic later following out of fear he would get voted out if he wouldn't follow them. True to Marina's prophecy, Alexis won immunity and she and Domenic eliminated Erinn.

At the Final Tribal Council, Domenic and Marina were praised as the representatives of the Viveros Alliance. They were considered ruthless players, but effective strategists. Domenic was criticised for playing such a villainous game and was awarded the title of Runner-Up from Alexis, Cody and Spencer. Marina on the other hand was praised for her well thought out strategic plan that led to Cody's blindside and her overall strong social game. She was awarded the title of Sole Survivor after earning five of eight jury votes from Axel, Darcy, Hayden, Hunter and Oliver.