El derecho de nacer () is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carlos Sotomayor for Televisa. It aired on Canal de las Estrellas from February 5, 2001 to May 25, 2001. It is a remake of the popular 1981 telenovela of the same name.
The series stars Kate del Castillo, Saúl Lisazo, Diana Bracho, Carlos Bracho, Maite Embil, Sabine Moussier, Gabriela Goldsmith, Hugo Acosta, Jorge AntolÃÂn, Sergio Corona, David Ostrosky and Francis Laboriel.
El derecho de nacer tells the story of the del Junco family: Rafael (Carlos Bracho), a powerful man, a despot, and a male chauvinist; his wife Clemencia (Diana Bracho), who flees her reality with drugs; and their daughters MarÃÂa Elena (Kate del Castillo) and Matilde (Maite Embil), victims of their father's oppression.
Their father is, to the public, a pillar of society, but in secret gives free rein to his base instincts. MarÃÂa Elena is seduced by Alfredo MartÃÂnez (Hugo Acosta), a compulsive gambler who flees the city in order to escape his debts, leaving the minor pregnant. Upon finding out, Don Rafael tries to abort his daughter's child, but it's too late, so he sends her to his farm so that the baby will be born there.
Given MarÃÂa Elena's refusal to give the child up for adoption, her father orders his foreman to kill the newborn. MarÃÂa Dolores (Francis Laboriel), MarÃÂa Elena's faithful nanny, saves the little one and flees with him to Mexico City.
Don Rafael believes that the child has died, while MarÃÂa Elena dedicates her body and soul to searching for her little son with the help of Aldo Drigani (Saúl Lisazo), whom she later marries after he saves her from various conflicts. With many sacrifices, but with a mother's great love, MarÃÂa Dolores rears little Alberto (Miguel ÃÂngel Biaggio) and educates him so that he will be a good man.
Thus, he becomes a brilliant physician who goes to Mérida, where he faces a past that he never suspected and a future he never pursued.