Duelo de Pasiones

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Duelo de Pasiones is a Mexican telenovela. It premiered in 2006 in Mexico and in the USA on January 15, taking the place of Heridas de Amor. It is a production of Juan Osorio and the protagonists are Ludwika Paleta and Pablo Montero.

[edit] Storyline

Álvaro Montellano receives a letter marked for his wife and written by his farmhand, José Gómez. Upon reading it he thinks his wife is in love with the farmhand and was planning to run away. In reality, the letter was marked for his sister Mariana Montellano who loves José and even has a daughter with him, but Alfonsina, who is still in love with Álvaro, intercepted it and made him believe it was for his wife. Álvaro suffers from a disease called celotipia, caused by a tramtic experience as a child in which his father committed suicide after learning his wife had cheated on him with their farmhand. Consumed by jealousy and hatred toward his wife and her affiar he shuns her and their daughter, Alina. He believes she is not his daughter but José's and takes her into the care of the local, Luba and her son Gaspar, while Soledad, his wife, has to stay locked up in their farm and be summitted to the victim of abuse and humiliations.

To make matters worse, before being taken by her father, Alina had meet Emilio Valtierra at a party. They both had fallen in love and had promised to meet each other in a cafe, a date which Alina never made. His girlfriend, Thelma, looking for Emilio falls prey to Gaspar, and in a drunken frenzy sleeps with him. Making Emilio believes she is carrying his child, he accepts to be with her.

Two years pass and Emilio still believes Alina left him. When he is assigned to a mission on Sierra Escondida he takes the opportunity to confront Alina on her never arriving on their date. Álvaro, wanting Alina to suffer, makes Emilio believe she is dead. He does and as soon as he sees Flor del Campo, which is really Alina, he thinks its Álvaro's illegitimate daughter and makes her suffer because of what Alina did to him. Pretty soon the couple engages in a Duel of Pasions as they try to fight for their love even though others stand in their way... Later he learns that Flor is really Alina after Alina goes into his house to get back her necklace heart which was the one he had given her at the beginning of the story. He tries to take her but she refuses to let him help after being threaten by her father saying that he will kill her mother.

Cast

Ludwika Paleta as Alina

Pablo Montero as Emilio

Sergio Goyri as Álvaro

Erika Buenfil as Soledad

Fabiola Campomanes as Thelma

Ana Martin as Luba

Intocable as Gaspar

Rafael Rojas as Máximo

José María Torre as Ángel

Jorge de Silva as José

Lis Vega as Coral