Espada Women's Alliance

**Highest Ranked**: Darcy (Winner/20)

The Espada Women's Alliance was an alliance from Survivor: Nicaragua.

This alliance was created and dominated the ill fated Espada tribe, before branching off and also controlling the tribe switch. Though they hit some obstacles at the merge, they soon gained control once more due to a powerful strategic duo.

## History

### Origins

The blue Espada tribe was formed on Day 1 of *Survivor: Nicaragua*. The women quickly created their own alliance and promised to take each other to the Final Five. Though an all male alliance was created in retaliation, the women had the numbers at their first loss on Day 3 because Beau had switched his vote. Now in the majority, the women voted out Beau at their first tribal council. Espada then lost the following two immunity challenges, where the women still had the numbers and eliminated both Ryan and Tison on Days 6 and 8 respectively.

### The Switch: Espada

At the tribe switch, Lana and Peighton remained on Espada along with Cody. They were in the minority against original La Flor members Adelaide, Kyle, Matthew, Priya and Vanessa. Lana and Peighton aligned with Cody out of necessity, despite working against him as part of the Espada Women's Alliance. The trio voted for Adelaide and a tie occurred between Adelaide and Peighton, whom the La Flor Alliance voted for. Lana and Peighton were concerned that the La Flor castaways would eliminate Peighton, but Cody convinced Kyle and Matthew to switch their vote and eliminate Adelaide. Cody, Lana and Peighton worked with Kyle and Matthew at the Double Tribal Council on Day 16 by voting for Priya, but Vanessa played her Hidden Immunity Idol on Priya. With the only two votes that counted from Priya and Vanessa, Cody was eliminated.

### The Switch: La Flor

Meanwhile, Espada Women Alana, Darcy and Erinn were switched to the yellow La Flor Alliance. The new La Flor tribe was evenly split between original Espada and La Flor castaways. Alana, Darcy and Erinn managed to get Bobby Jon to work with them and Montana flipped on her original tribe to blindside Mallory at their Double Tribal Council on Day 16. The Espada Women's Alliance then had the numbers on the new La Flor tribe, where they decided to vote for Liam at their loss on Day 19. The girls were concerned when he played an idol at tribal council, but were glad that he and Richard had taken revenge and voted for Montana rather than one of their core allies.

### The Merge

The final twelve castaways merged into the red Libertad tribe. Alana, Darcy, Erinn, Lana and Peighton reunited as the Espada Women and decided to vote for Kyle at the first merged tribal council. However, they were unable to bring in other castaways to have the majority and the La Flor Alliance eliminated Peighton on Day 22. Priya and Vanessa was unhappy with their position in their La Flor Alliance and decided to work with the Espada Women. The girls quickly agreed that the group should vote out either Liam or Richard, but they were concerned that the men could have an idol. With Bobby Jon and Matthew's help, the alliance split the votes between Liam and Richard. Neither played had an idol and Richard was voted out with the most votes.

At the Final Ten, Priya and Vanessa were firmly aligned with the Espada Women's Alliance had they decided to vote out Kyle. The alliance weren't sure which La Flor Alliance member to target next, but they soon set their sights on their own ally Alana when it was revealed that she was trying to go after Priya and Vanessa. At tribal council, Alana voted for Vanessa but the Espada Women had the numbers and they blindsided Alana instead. Returning back to camp, Priya and Vanessa exposed to the Espada Women that Erinn had considered flipping with Alana but had backed out at the last minute. Darcy and Lana were reluctant to vote out Erinn, but they voted her out because they didn't feel like they could trust her anymore. This move still gave the girls the majority, as Darcy, Lana, Priya and Vanessa became an inseperable group. They systematically voted out Bobby Jon and Liam at tribal council on Days 34 and 36 respectively.

### Darcy's Reign

At the Final Five, Darcy and Lana decided to go after Priya and Vanessa because they were threatened by them. The pair managed to bring in outsider Matthew to ensure that Priya would be voted out next. However, Darcy was concerned that she wouldn't win against Lana because the jury would see them as making the same move as part of the Espada Women's Alliance. She also thought that by keeping Priya and Vanessa at the Final Four, she would have a shield to get to the end. At tribal, Lana was blindsided because Darcy flipped to vote with Priya and Vanessa. As she predicted, Priya won the final individual immunity challenge and wanted to get rid of Vanessa. The pair worked together and Vanessa was made the final member of the jury on Day 38. The jury praised Darcy for making big moves and getting herself to the end after using the Espada Women for her benefit. She was awarded the title of Sole Survivor after earning six of nine jury votes.