La antorcha encendida (English: The Flaming Torch) is a 1996 Mexican television drama series broadcast by Canal de Las Estrellas. Directed by Gonzalo Martínez Ortega, Claudio Reyes Rubio and Jesús Moreno, it stars Leticia Calderón, Humberto Zurita, Juan Ferrara, Julieta Rosen, Alejandra Ávalos, Ari Telch, Luis Gatica, Christian Bach, Alejandro Ruiz, Julio Beckles, Ernesto Laguardia, Mario Iván Martínez, Sergio Reynoso, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, María Rivas, Angélica María, Ofelia Guilmáin, Carmen Salinas, María 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.
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Plot
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.
Cast
Leticia Calderón as Teresa de Muñiz
Humberto Zurita as Mariano Foncerrada
Juan Ferrara as Don Pedro de Soto
Julieta Rosen as Manuela de Soto
Ari Telch as Luis Foncerrada
Juan Peláez as Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Ernesto Laguardia as Gral. Ignacio Allende
Ofelia Guilmáin as Doña Macaria de Soto
Aarón Hernán as Father Julián de Ibarne
Angélica María as Doña Bernarda de Muñiz
Soundtrack
Available in Mercado Libre and Amazon.