La antorcha encendida (English: The Flaming Torch) is a 1996 Mexican television drama series broadcast by Canal de Las Estrellas. Directed by Gonzalo MartÃÂnez Ortega, Claudio Reyes Rubio and Jesús Moreno, it stars Leticia Calderón, Humberto Zurita, Juan Ferrara, Julieta Rosen, Alejandra ÃÂvalos, Ari Telch, Luis Gatica, Christian Bach, Alejandro Ruiz, Julio Beckles, Ernesto Laguardia, Mario Iván MartÃÂnez, Sergio Reynoso, Patricia Reyes SpÃÂndola, MarÃÂa Rivas, Angélica MarÃÂa, Ofelia Guilmáin, Carmen Salinas, MarÃÂa Rojo, Juan Peláez, Germán Robles, Luis Gimeno, Enrique Rocha, Aarón Hernán, Sergio Jiménez and Lorenzo de Rodas. It aired from May 6 to November 15, 1996, replacing Maria la del Barrio and was replaced by Te sigo amando.
It has been three centuries of Spanish rule. Three hundred years in which the discounted of the population of New Spain has grown along with their suffering by injustice, exploitation, poverty and inequality. It is in this Mexico that begins to awaken which frames the love story between Mariano and Teresa.
United not only by affection, but especially by the desire to see their land free, their paths follow the history of Mexico's independence and freedom. The show depicts the lives of three families, de Soto, de Muñiz and the widowed Juana de Foncerada and her five adopted children. Mariano Foncerada will face Don Pedro to defend Teresa de Muñiz, whom he loves, and Pedro seeks to destroy him, without suspecting that Mariano is his son.
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