''Pasión y poder'' (English title: ''Passion and Power'') is a Mexican

telenovela A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' (for "television") and ''novela'' (meaning "novel"). Similar Drama (film and television), drama genres around the w ...

produced by

José Alberto Castro José Alberto Castro (born José Alberto Sáinz Castro, 31 May 1963) is a Mexican producer and director. Biography He is the brother of actresses Verónica Castro, Beatriz Castro, telenovela producer Fausto Gerardo Sáinz, and the uncle of Mex ...

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 ...

. It is a remake of the Mexican telenovela '' Pasión y poder'', produced in 1988. It was created by Marrisa Garrido and developed by Ximena Suárez. The series stars

Jorge Salinas Jorge Salinas Pérez (born July 27, 1968) is a Mexican television and film actor, best known for his leading roles in telenovelas. Career Salinas then enrolled at Centro de Educación Artística (CEA) in 1990 and after finishing his studies, he ...

as Arturo,

Fernando Colunga Fernando Colunga Olivares (; born 3 March 1966) is a Mexican actor known for his work in Mexican telenovelas. Colunga gained international fame for playing Luis Fernando de la Vega in the Mexican soap opera '' Maria la del Barrio''. He is also ...

as Eladio,

Susana González Susana González (; born Susana Alejandra González del Río on October 2, 1973, in Calera de Víctor Rosales, Zacatecas, Mexico) is a Mexican actress and model. Biography She is the daughter of Refugio González and Elvira del Río, and ha ...

as Julia and

Marlene Favela Marlene Favela (born Silvia Marlene Favela Meraz on August 5, 1976) is a Mexican actress and model. In Mexican television, as of 2013 she was best known as Esmeralda in the TV show '' Zorro, La Espada y la Rosa''. In 2013, she appeared as an aw ...

as Nina.

Plot

''Pasión y poder'' revolves around family dramas and corporate powers of two rival families. The rivalry that originated many years ago, when Arturo Montenegro and Eladio Gómez Luna both fell in love with the beautiful Julia Vallado. Eladio ultimately married her. Years later, Julia Vallado is a very unhappy woman having to suffer from abuse and therefore endures the wickedness of her husband, with her only consolation, is the love of his son David, a complete antithesis of his father. Arturo however is married to Nina a very ambitious woman who even though is in love with Arturo wallows in all his riches. Together they have three children, Eric the eldest who is wicked and tries hard to follow in his father's footsteps. Regina the second oldest who is very kind, beautiful and hardworking and the last born being Daniella who is ambitious like her mother with a wicked heart and jealous of Regina's undeniable beauty. Arturo also has an older son Miguel from a woman who died before he married Nina. Miguel is secretly in love with Consuelo Eric's wife who also has to endure Eric's wickedness unaware that he is having an affair with a model called Montserrat. Regina is engaged and ready to be married by his fiancé Joshua who ultimately crashes his bike with David Gomez Luna (Eladio's son) hence causing an accident that will tie their lives forever. The accident causes the two rival families to meet once more in the hospital. David is badly injured while Joshua is discharged immediately only to be seduced by Daniella hence ending up kissing to Regina's dismay who finds them in the act and ends up breaking her engagement. Tired of his father's wickedness and comparing him to Franco Eladio's godson who unlike David is entirely loyal to Eladio he decides to leave for a vacation. There, David meets Daniella Montenegro and they start a romance but Daniella ends the relationship realizing David was not rich enough. David is therefore brokenhearted and realizes that all Montenegros are evil. After getting a job offer as an engineer he accepts only to find out he is partnered with Regina Montenegro. Their work relationship starts off as a rocky start since David thinks that Regina is very much wicked like her sister Daniella. Over time they grow closer David realizing that Regina is hardworking and kindhearted hence their relationship grows into an undeniable love. They are followed by the dilemma of confessing their love to their families hoping that it would be a chance for peace between them. However it would seem impossible for them since Daniella who regrets dumping David tries every thing possible to win him back. Elsewhere Arturo and Julia rekindle their feelings for each hence making Nina and Eladio to join forces and prevent the two from being together.

Cast

Main

as Arturo Montenegro *

as Eladio Gomez Luna *

as Julia Vallado de Gomez Luna *

as Nina de Montenegro

Also main

* Michelle Renaud as Regina Montenegro *

Altaír Jarabo Altaír Jarabo García (born August 7, 1986, in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actress and fashion model. She is best known for her antagonistic roles in Mexican telenovelas including '' Inocente de ti'', ''Al diablo con los guapos'', '' En ...

as Consuelo Martínez * José Pablo Minor as David Gómez Luna *

Alejandro Nones Alejandro Nones (born December 9, 1982) is a Venezuelan actor. He began his acting career with the film ''Así del precipicio'', and later was hired by Televisa to act in the telenovela ''Lola, érase una vez ''Lola, érase una vez'' (English: ...

as Erick Montenegro * Danilo Carrera as Franco Herrera * Fabiola Guajardo as Gabriela Díaz *

Marco Méndez Marco Méndez (born Marco Anibal Méndez Ramírez on October 1, 1976, in Uruapan, Michoacán) is a Mexican actor. Méndez began as a model and later studied acting in Televisa's CEA. He made his television debut as 'Oscar Méndez' in the telenov ...

as Agustín Ornelas * Jaume Mateu as Miguel Montenegro * Irina Baeva as Daniela Montenegro *Enrique Montaño as Justino *Geraldo Albarrán as El Callao *Boris Duflos as Francisco *

Raquel Olmedo Raquel Olmedo (; born Siomara Anicia Orama Leal on 30 December 1937) is a Cuban-born Mexican singer and actress. She started her career in her native Cuba before moving to Mexico in 1959. She performed in the last years of the Golden Age of Me ...

as Gisela Fuentes * Luis Bayardo as Humberto Vallado *Alejandro Aragón as Aldo * Raquel Garza as Petra / Samanta *Ericka García as Maribel *Pilar Escalante as Ángeles *Óscar Medellín as Joshua Solares *Daniela Fridman as Marintia *Jorge Bolaños as Santos *Victoria Camacho as Montserrat Moret *Gema Garoa as Clara Álvarez *Issabela Camil as Caridad

Recurring

*Fabián Pizzorno as Ashmore *Mara Matosic

Awards and nominations

Broadcast

The series originally aired from October 5, 2015, to April 10, 2016, in Mexico on

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 ...

. The series premiered on November 3, 2015, to April 28, 2016, in United States on

Univision Univision () is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television, free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. It is the United States' largest provider of Spanish-language content. The network's programming is aimed at the L ...

. The series was once retransmitted on September 9, 2019, to March 11, 2020, in United States on Unimas.

Ratings

References

External links

* {{José Alberto Castro Televisa telenovelas 2015 telenovelas 2015 Mexican television series debuts 2016 Mexican television series endings Mexican television series reboots Spanish-language telenovelas