Claim: Flor y canela is a Mexican telenovela directed by Luis Vélez that is about the life of the orphan, Marianela.
Evidence: Flor y canela is a Mexican telenovela produced by Eugenio Cobo for Televisa in 1988. Luis Vélez In the 1940s, in a Mexican mining town lives María de la Canela, nicknamed Marianela. This dirty and ragged orphan is despised by villagers who see it inherited traits madness of his mother committed suicide by jumping off a ravine. 
Flor y canela is a Mexican telenovela produced by Eugenio Cobo for Televisa in 1988. It is an original story of Spanish writer Benito Pérez Galdós, adapted by María Teresa Calderón and Marissa Garrido and directed by Luis Vélez. In the 1940s, in a Mexican mining town lives María de la Canela, nicknamed Marianela. This dirty and ragged orphan is despised by villagers who see it inherited traits madness of his mother committed suicide by jumping off a ravine.