# El vuelo del águila

El vuelo del águila (The Flight of the Eagle) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Ernesto Alonso and Carlos Sotomayor for Televisa in 1994–1995. Telenovela based on the Mexican soldier and President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz, from his name had come out the title "Época Porfiriana" or "Porfiriato" during the period of his rule, in the years 1876–1911.
It stars Humberto Zurita, Mariana Levy, Manuel Ojeda and Jacqueline Andere.

## Plot

A military hero of the Reform War, called Porfirio Díaz, was also one of the most important strategists behind the overthrow of the Second Mexican Empire. Diaz tried several times to come to power through military coups, until a last revolution in 1876 led him to the Presidency of the Republic. Except for a brief period (1880-1884), Porfirio Díaz ruled until 1911, when the takeover by Francisco I. Madero forced him to resign and go into exile.
Diaz lived to see his revolution undone and how all the profits made were destroyed by their own very long stay in power. As a hero or a cunning weaver of intrigues, Porfirio Díaz learns, fight, machine, rules, kill, peaceful, love, suffering, crying and devotion dedicated to his work without ever leave until their own people rebels to expel power.

## Cast

* Humberto Zurita as Porfirio Díaz (Young)
* Mariana Levy as Carmen Romero Rubio (Young)
* Manuel Ojeda as Porfirio Díaz (Adult)
* Jacqueline Andere as Carmen Romero Rubio (Adult)
* Patricia Reyes Spíndola as Petrona Mori
* Ernesto Gómez Cruz as Benito Juárez
* Alma Delfina as Delfina Ortega Díaz
* Gastón Tuset as Mariano Escobedo
* Claudio Brook as Manuel Romero Rubio
* Beatriz Aguirre as Agustina de Romero Rubio
* Irán Eory as Agustina de Romero Rubio (young)
* Israel Jaitovich as Manuel González Flores (young)
* Roberto D'Amico as Manuel González Flores (adult)
* Socorro Bonilla as Margarita Maza de Juárez
* César Castro as Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada
* Mario Casillas as Carlos Pacheco
* Martha Mariana Castro as Rafaela Quiñones/Justa Saavedra
* Ismael Aguilar as Tomás Mejía Camacho
* Isabel Andrade as Desideria Díaz
* Roberto Antúnez as Cenobio Márquez
* Armando Araiza as Bolero
* Roberto Ballesteros as Vicente Guerrero
* Diana Bracho as Sara Pérez Romero
* Luis Bayardo as Francisco I. Madero
* Óscar Bonfiglio as Gustavo A. Madero
* Raúl Buenfil as Ignacio Zaragoza
* Quintín Bulnes as Henry Lane Wilson
* Juan Carlos Casasola as Francisco Zarco
* Óscar Castañeda as Emiliano Zapata
* Aaron Hernan as Bernardo Reyes
* Lumi Cavazos as Amada Díaz
* Jorge Celaya as Esteban Aragón
* Uriel Chávez as Homobono
* Eugenio Cobo as Venustiano Carranza
* Juan Carlos Colombo as Melchor Ocampo
* Carlos Corres as Justo (16 years old)
* Constantino Costas as Espinoza/Gorostiza
* Pedro Damián as José María Pino Suárez
* Dulce María as Delfina (child)
* Julieta Egurrola as Luisa Romero Rubio
* Humberto Elizondo as Manuel Mondragón
* José Antonio Ferral as Father Pardo
* Laura Flores as Empress Carlota of Mexico
* Esteban Franco as Félix Díaz
* Rocío Gallardo as Damiana
* Juan Pablo Garcíadiego as Luis Mier y Terán
* Fidel Garriga as José María Iglesias
* Jaime Garza as Ricardo Flores Magón
* Luis Gimeno as Napoleon III
* Magda Giner as María Cañas Buch
* Miguel Gómez Checa as Marcos Pérez
* Sergio Goyri as Jesús González Ortega
* Salma Hayek as Juana Catalina Romero
* Mel Herrera as Porfirio Díaz Ortega
* Blanca Ireri Espinosa as Delfina (9 years old)
* José Antonio Iturriaga as Flavio Maldonado
* Luz María Jerez as Doña Inés
* Eduardo Liñán as François Achille Bazaine
* Ángeles Marín as Nicolasa Díaz
* Beatriz Martinez as Archduchess Sophie of Bavaria
* Mario Iván Martínez as Maximilian I of Mexico
* Antonio Medellin as Felipe Berriozábal
* Ramón Menéndez as Manuel González de Cosío
* Raúl Meraz as Francisco León de la Barra
* Maristel Molina as Paula de Anda
* Roberto Montiel as Dr. Manuel Antonio Ortega
* Óscar Morelli as Ignacio Martínez de Pinillos
* José Luis Moreno López as Ignacio Mejía
* Juan Carlos Muñoz as Miguel Miramón
* Montserrat Ontiveros as Nicolasa Díaz (16 years old)/Sofía Romero Rubio
* Claudia Ortega as Manuela Díaz (18 years old)
* Adalberto Parra as Juan Nepomuceno Almonte
* Tito Reséndiz as Ignacio Comonfort
* Bruno Rey as Victoriano Huerta
* Guillermo Rivas as Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos
* Fabián Robles as Porfirio Díaz (15 years old)
* Julián Robles as Félix Díaz (15 years old)
* Juan Romanca as Guillermo Prieto
* Alejandro Ruiz as Justo Benítez
* Roberto Ruy as Juan
* Héctor Sáez as Jerónimo Treviño
* Polo Salazar as López Lazcano
* Óscar Sánchez as Durán Roa
* Salvador Sánchez as Ignacio Ramírez
* Sergio Sánchez as José Ives Limantour
* Juan Carlos Serrán as Félix Zuloaga
* Evangelina Sosa as Delfina (young)
* Moisés Suarez as José Agustín Domínguez y Díaz
* Zulema Williams as Vicenta
* Luis Xavier as Franz Joseph I of Austria
* Eduardo Santamarina as Dr. Manuel Antonio Ortega Reyes
* Miguel Ángel Biaggio
* Luis Cárdenas
* Guillermo Iván
* Alfonso Iturralde
* Alejandro Montoya
* José María Negri
* Arturo Ríos
* Elías Rubio

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Nominee | Result |
| 1995 | 13th TVyNovelas Awards | Pioneer in Historical Telenovelas | Ernesto Alonso | Won |
| 1995 | 13th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Production | Carlos Sotomayor | Won |
| 1995 | 13th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Performance | Manuel Ojeda | Won |
| 1995 | 13th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Actor | Humberto Zurita | Won |
| 1995 | 13th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Leading Actress | Jacqueline Andere | Won |
| 1995 | 13th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Co-lead Actress | Patricia Reyes Spíndola | Won |
| 1995 | 13th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Musical Theme | "Don Porfirio" by Daniel Catán | Won |
| 1995 | 13th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Original Story or Adaptation | Enrique Krauze Fausto Zerón-Medina | Won |
| 1995 | 13th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Direction | Gonzalo Martínez Ortega Jorge Fons | Won |
| 1995 | 13th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Direction of the Cameras | Jesús Acuña Lee Carlos Guerra | Won |
| 1995 | Bravo Awards | Best Actress | Patricia Reyes Spíndola | Won |
| 1995 | El Heraldo de México Awards | Best Telenovela | Ernesto Alonso | Won |
| 1995 | El Heraldo de México Awards | Best Actress | Patricia Reyes Spíndola | Nominated |
| 1995 | El Heraldo de México Awards | Best Actor | Ernesto Gómez Cruz | Nominated |
| 1995 | El Heraldo de México Awards | Best Actor | Humberto Zurita | Nominated |
| 1995 | El Heraldo de México Awards | Best Actor | Manuel Ojeda | Won |
| 1996 | Latin ACE Awards | Best Dramatized Cultural Program | Carlos Sotomayor Gonzalo Martínez Ortega | Won |
| 1996 | Latin ACE Awards | Best Actress | Patricia Reyes Spíndola | Won |