''Cañaveral de pasiones'' is a Mexican

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produced by

Christian Bach Adela Christian Bach Bottino (May 9, 1959 – February 26, 2019), known as Christian Bach, was an Argentine-born Mexican actress and producer of telenovelas produced by companies such as Televisa, TV Azteca and Telemundo. Her most famous wor ...

and

Humberto Zurita Humberto Zurita Moreno (, born September 2, 1954) is a Mexican actor, director and producer. Zurita, one of 10 siblings from Torreón, Coahuila, is best known as actor, director and producer of telenovelas. Acting career He made his first stage ...

for

Televisa Grupo Televisa, S.A.B., simply known as Televisa, is a Mexican telecommunications and broadcasting company. A major Latin American mass media corporation, it often presents itself as the largest producer of Spanish-language content. In April ...

and broadcast by

Canal de las Estrellas Las Estrellas () is a Mexican television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. Its first official broadcast took place on 21 March 1951. It airs free-to-air through affiliate stations throughout Mexico, based on XEW-TDT in Mexico City. It is co ...

in 1996.

Daniela Castro Daniela Castro (born Danielle Stefani Castro Arellano; 17 August 1969) is a Mexican actress and singer. Biography She felt an attraction for music at a very young age, and this is why she entered the Centro de Estudios Artísticos de Televisa ...

Francisco Gattorno Francisco Alejandro Gattorno Sánchez (; born October 12, 1964), better known in the show business world plainly as Francisco Gattorno, is a Cuban actor. Biography Francisco grew up in Santa Clara. He is a son of a Canarian father, and mother ...

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Fernando Balzaretti Fernando Balzaretti (June 10, 1946 – September 5, 1998) was a Mexican actor. Career Balzaretti began his acting career in the 1960s and by the time of his death in 1998 had acted in at least 40 films, 21 telenovelas and 136 plays. He was a ...

and

Alma Delfina Alma Delfina (née Martínez Ortega) is a Mexican actress. Acting career She started her career in 1974 in the telenovela '' Mundo de juguete''. In the 1970s she was active principally on movies. In the 1980s acted in soap operas like ''Guadal ...

starred in this telenovela.

Plot

The story takes place among the sugar cane fields of the state of

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, where the slander and spite caused by a lie forever mark the lives of two families and four friends who met being children: Julia (

), Pablo ( Juan Soler), Juan de Dios (

) and Mireya (

Patricia Navidad Ana Patricia "Paty" Navidad Lara (; born May 20, 1973) is a Mexican actress and singer. Biography Navidad developed an interest in music before acting, mainly influenced by her father, Jesús. She once was quoted as saying that his voice has ...

). ''Cañaveral de pasiones'' is a telenovela that revolves around the life of Julia Santos, a noble and extremely beautiful girl, friend of Mireya and love of Pablo and Juan de Dios, who lives besieged by the resentment and bitterness that her own family has built around her. Julia will have to fight against the ghosts that inhabit the mind of her father, Fausto (

); against the ill will of Dinora Faberman (

Azela Robinson Azela Robinson (born Azela Jacqueline Robinson Cañedo on 26 August 1965) is a Mexican actress. She has portrayed antagonistic characters in the Mexican telenovelas '' Cañaveral de pasiones'' (1996), '' Contra viento y marea'' (2005), '' Lle ...

), her aunt, and against the calumnies that have been made up in town concerning her mother and herself. Pablo, the son of Josefina Montero (

), is Julia's love. Both represent the love that is born in the first years of life and that grows with the passage of time, becoming stronger and stronger. It is a love that must fight against the pressures that try to destroy it, using moral concepts, good customs and family honor as a banner. After 15 years, Pablo returns to town, engaged to Gina (

Marisol Santacruz Marisol Santacruz Bañuelos (born 16 February 1970 in Mexico City, Federal District) is an actress, comedian, hostess, model, and a former winner of Rostro de El Heraldo, a beauty contest for the Mexican newspaper ''El Heraldo de México, El Her ...

), a superficial and opportunistic young girl. The reunion with Julia causes a sudden change in Pablo's life, who, realizing his love for her, faces great obstacles, including his own mother, whom hatred has made loathe Julia and her family. ''Cañaveral de pasiones'' is the story of four loves, of four passions that, with strength, courage, nobility and youth, will have to overcome adverse circumstances so that the shadows fade and their love grows, sweet and strong as cane.

Cast

Main cast

as Julia Santos Faberman **

Zoraida Gómez Zoraida Virginia Gómez Sánchez (; born May 31, 1985, in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actress known for her performance in ''Rebelde.'' Biography She is the sister of actors Eleazar Gómez, Alizair Gómez and Jairo Gómez. Eleazar and Zora ...

as Child Julia *

as Juan de Dios ** Raúl Castellanos as Child Juan de Dios *

as Josefina Rosales de Montero *

as Fausto Santos *

as Father Refugio "Cuco" Rosales *

as Prudencia Martínez

Supporting cast

Jorge Russek Jorge Antonio Russek Martínez (4 January 1932 – 30 July 1998) was a Mexican actor, whose career in film and television spanned over 40 years. A native of Guaymas, Sonora, he became one of the most prominent actors in Mexican cinema and appeare ...

as Samuel Aldapa * Juan Soler as Pablo Montero Rosales **

Sebastián Zurita Sebastián Zurita Bach is a Mexican actor, known for his roles in Mexican telenovelas like '' En nombre del amor'' (2008), '' Cuando me enamoro'' (2010), and Netflix series like '' El juego de las llaves'' (2019) and ''Cómo sobrevivir soltero ...

as Child Pablo * María Eugenia Ríos as Amalia de Aldapa *

Josefina Echánove Josefina Echánove (born Josefina Rojas Hudson; 21 July 1926 – 29 December 2020) was a Mexican film, television and stage actress.

as Remedios *

Elizabeth Dupeyrón Elizabeth Dupeyrón (born January 14, 1950) is a Mexican actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium o ...

as Socorro Carrasco *

as Gina Elizondo *

as Mireya ** Marisol Centeno as Child Mireya * Liza Willert as Carlota * Tony Bravo as Rafael Elizondo *

Norma Lazareno Norma Lazareno (born 5 November 1943) is a Mexican film and television actress.Greene, p. 176. Filmography Televisión * ''La mexicana y el güero'' (2021) - Doña Crucita Rojas * '' Simplemente María'' (2015-2016) - Olivia Aparicio Vda. de ...

as Hilda de Cisneros * Rodrigo Abed as Guillermo Elizondo *

Aracely Arámbula Aracely Arámbula Jáquez (; born March 6, 1975), known professionally as Aracely Arámbula, is a Mexican actress, model, singer, television personality and entrepreneur. Life and career Early life Aracely Arambula Jáquez was born in Chihu ...

as Leticia "Lety" Cisneros *

Dacia Arcaráz Dacia Arcaraz (born Dacia del Pilar Arcaraz González, 8 March 1967 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor pe ...

as Rosario "Chayo" de Osuna * Héctor Cruz as Vicente Osuna * Josafat Luna as Leopoldo * Roberto Miquel as Enrique Cisneros * Carlos Navarro as Gildardo * Gilberto Román as Dr. Alejandro Cisneros *

as Dinora Faberman *

Roberto Ballesteros Roberto Ballesteros (born March 22, 1952) is a Mexican actor. In some media it has been erroneously published that the actor is originally from Peru. However, the actor himself has denied this information and exhibited his birth certificate to con ...

as Rufino Mendoza

Guest stars

César Évora César Évora Díaz (; born November 4, 1959) is a Cuban- Mexican actor. Biography Évora started his career in Cuba appearing in more than ten movies before moving to Mexico in the early 1990s. He became known for playing minor roles in the ...

as Amador Montero *

Felicia Mercado Felicia Mercado (born Felicia Mercado Agud on December 17, 1959) is a Mexican actress, singer, TV host and beauty pageant titleholder, best known for her appearances in telenovelas . She appeared in '' Between Love and Hatred'' and ''Teresa''. H ...

as Margarita Faberman de Santos

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Canaveral De Pasiones 1996 telenovelas 1996 Mexican television series debuts 1996 Mexican television series endings Spanish-language telenovelas Televisa telenovelas