Teresa (1989 telenovela)

Teresa (Spanish pronunciation: [teɾeˈsa]) was a successful Mexican telenovela written by Mimí Bechelani. It was transmitted by El Canal de las Estrellas in 1989. It starred Salma Hayek as well as Rafael Rojas, Daniel Gimenez Cacho and Miguel Pizarro.

Synopsis

Teresa is a beautiful and intelligent young woman desperately seeking to get out of the grinding poverty of the neighborhood where she lives. Resentful of the miserable life that took her sister, she plans to use her beauty and intelligence to enter the world of luxury to which she wants to belong. To this end, she enters her classmate and friend Aurora's group of friends. There she meets Aurora's cousin Raul, a young but neurotic millionaire with suicidal tendencies. Telling Raul that she is rich, coupled with her beauty, Raul is smitten with her. Even then he and Aurora discover that Teresa is poor and a liar, Raul is obsessed with her and forgives her. Fearing that their opposition to the relationship will end with Raul's suicide, Aurora's parents accept the romance of Teresa and Raul. However, throughout history Teresa will learn that ambition and lies only lead to unhappiness and loneliness.

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