# Cañaveral de Pasiones

Cañaveral de pasiones is a Mexican telenovela produced by Christian Bach and Humberto Zurita for Televisa and broadcast by Canal de las Estrellas in 1996.
Daniela Castro, Francisco Gattorno, Angélica Aragón, Leonardo Daniel, Fernando Balzaretti and Alma Delfina starred in this telenovela.

## Plot

The story takes place among the sugar cane fields of the state of Veracruz, where the slander and spite caused by a lie forever mark the lives of two families and four friends who met being children: Julia (Daniela Castro), Pablo (Juan Soler), Juan de Dios (Francisco Gattorno) and Mireya (Patricia Navidad).
Cañaveral de pasiones is a telenovela that revolves around the life of Julia Santos, a noble and extremely beautiful girl, friend of Mireya and love of Pablo and Juan de Dios, who lives besieged by the resentment and bitterness that her own family has built around her.
Julia will have to fight against the ghosts that inhabit the mind of her father, Fausto (Leonardo Daniel); against the ill will of Dinora Faberman (Azela Robinson), her aunt, and against the calumnies that have been made up in town concerning her mother and herself.
Pablo, the son of Josefina Montero (Angélica Aragón), is Julia's love. Both represent the love that is born in the first years of life and that grows with the passage of time, becoming stronger and stronger. It is a love that must fight against the pressures that try to destroy it, using moral concepts, good customs and family honor as a banner.
After 15 years, Pablo returns to town, engaged to Gina (Marisol Santacruz), a superficial and opportunistic young girl. The reunion with Julia causes a sudden change in Pablo's life, who, realizing his love for her, faces great obstacles, including his own mother, whom hatred has made loathe Julia and her family.
Cañaveral de pasiones is the story of four loves, of four passions that, with strength, courage, nobility and youth, will have to overcome adverse circumstances so that the shadows fade and their love grows, sweet and strong as cane.

## Cast
### Main cast

* Daniela Castro as Julia Santos Faberman
** Zoraida Gómez as Child Julia
* Francisco Gattorno as Juan de Dios
** Raúl Castellanos as Child Juan de Dios
* Angélica Aragón as Josefina Rosales de Montero
* Leonardo Daniel as Fausto Santos
* Fernando Balzaretti as Father Refugio "Cuco" Rosales
* Alma Delfina as Prudencia Martínez

### Supporting cast

* Jorge Russek as Samuel Aldapa
* Juan Soler as Pablo Montero Rosales
** Sebastián Zurita as Child Pablo
* María Eugenia Ríos as Amalia de Aldapa
* Josefina Echánove as Remedios
* Elizabeth Dupeyrón as Socorro Carrasco
* Marisol Santacruz as Gina Elizondo
* Patricia Navidad as Mireya
** Marisol Centeno as Child Mireya
* Liza Willert as Carlota
* Tony Bravo as Rafael Elizondo
* Norma Lazareno as Hilda de Cisneros
* Rodrigo Abed as Guillermo Elizondo
* Aracely Arámbula as Leticia "Lety" Cisneros
* Dacia Arcaráz as Rosario "Chayo" de Osuna
* Héctor Cruz as Vicente Osuna
* Josafat Luna as Leopoldo
* Roberto Miquel as Enrique Cisneros
* Carlos Navarro as Gildardo
* Gilberto Román as Dr. Alejandro Cisneros
* Azela Robinson as Dinora Faberman
* Roberto Ballesteros as Rufino Mendoza

### Guest stars

* César Évora as Amador Montero
* Felicia Mercado as Margarita Faberman de Santos

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result |
| 1997 | 15th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Telenovela | Christian Bach Humberto Zurita | Won |
| 1997 | 15th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Actress | Daniela Castro | Won |
| 1997 | 15th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Actor | Juan Soler | Won |
| 1997 | 15th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Antagonist Actress | Azela Robinson | Nominated |
| 1997 | 15th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Antagonist Actor | Roberto Ballesteros | Won |
| 1997 | 15th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Leading Actress | Angélica Aragón | Nominated |
| 1997 | 15th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Leading Actor | Jorge Russek | Won |
| 1997 | 15th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Alma Delfina | Won |
| 1997 | 15th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Leonardo Daniel | Won |
| 1997 | 15th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Female Revelation | Patricia Navidad | Won |
| 1997 | 15th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Original Story or Adaptation | Cuauhtémoc Blanco María del Carmen Peña | Won |
| 1997 | 15th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Direction | Claudio Reyes Rubio Benjamín Cann | Won |