Térésa Suarez (Gaviota)

Teresa Suárez also known as Gaviota is the main female protagonist and heroine of the hit Colombian telenovela Café con Aroma de Mujer, a coffee picker who falls in love with Sebastian Vallejo, a coffee businessman and the main male protagonist, she was famously portrayed by Margarita Rosa de Francisco in 1994, in the Mexican remakes, it was played by Silvia Navarro in 2001 in Cuándo Seas Mia, instead of Gaviota her nickname was Paloma, and Angelica Rivera in 2007 in Destilando Amor, like the original her nickname was Gaviota, this remake changed coffee for tequila, recently in 2021, the iconic role of Gaviota was played by Laura Londoño in the new version of Café con Arome Mujer.
Plot
Beautiful and feisty Teresa Suárez, nicknamed Gaviota and her mother Carmenza Suárez work as coffee pickers the nyear they travel to different farmlands across Colombia searching for work. Each October, just prior to the harvest period in the coffee axis, they travel to the hacienda Casablanca in Filandia whose owner, powerful coffee businessman Octavio Vallejo, secures employment for them. One October, Vallejo dies and his family, spread over the world, heads back to Casablanca to attend the funeral. Once back in the hacienda after several years in London, his grandson Sebastián Vallejo (Guy Ecker) meets Gaviota and only with her he is eventually able to overcome his fear of women. After a few encounters, Sebastián and Gaviota begin a short, but passionate affair that becomes for both of them their first true romantic experience. They keep their romance a secret, specially from his aristocratic family, but eventually he must leave back for London after his grandfather's funeral to finish his college studies. The pair agree to reunite in Casablanca exactly the same date the following year, once he graduates, to finally marry. Shortly after Sebastián's departure, Gaviota finds out she is pregnant. Finding no means to get in contact with him, distrusting his family and with no one else to turn to, she decides to travel to Europe herself to search for him, having been deceived by a network of human trafficking who prey on her ingenuity by offering her a job as a model but actually hoping to exploit her as a prostitute in Paris.
Sebastián returns to Casablanca the following year to keep his promise and, after searching for her in town, he finds out she went to Europe to work as a prostitute. Disheartened, and influenced by his avaricious cousin Iván Vallejo (Cristóbal Errázuriz), he weds his friend Lucía Sandoval (Alejandra Borrero) who accepts a lifetime in a completely sexless marriage just to be by his side.
Gaviota, having assumed a new identity in Europe as Carolina Olivares, finally returns to Colombia but only manages to arrive at Casablanca the morning after Sebastián and Lucía's wedding ceremony has taken place there. Dismayed by the sudden turn of events, Gaviota looks for her mother and secretly leaves Casablanca for good in order to stay away from Sebastián and to find a better life in Bogotá. Having much difficulty in the huge and unfamiliar city she eventually returns to the world of coffee, this time being employed by Cafexport, the coffee-exporting company owned by the Vallejo family, under her alternate identity as Carolina Olivares. After realising Gaviota's return to Casablanca and her almost immediate departure, and also regretting his hasty and love-lacking marriage, Sebastián decides to employ all his means to find her. Sebastián finally found her when he went to Cafexport, Gaviota, who is still hurt and mad at him for not keeping his promise he did a year ago, decided to play hard to get and not fall for him again, even though she is still in love with him, Sebastián tried to win her love again by putting beautiful bouquet of flowers to her office everyday, to which she always rejects. On a trip to Santa Marta, Gaviota reconcile with Sebastian and they have a romantic vacation together. One day while in her office, out of happiness of being with Sebastián again, she sings her famous Gaviota song, while she was singing, Lucía and Lucrecia went to Sebastián's office because they needed to talk to him, Lucía recognized the song Gaviota was singing and she started to suspect that she is Gaviota, that coffee picker who Sebastián is actually in love with because when she used to be in Casablanca with him, he would always be very happy everytime Gaviota sang that song, Lucrecia tried to convince Lucía that Carolina couldn't be that coffee picker and that everyone might know that song she sang, Lucía still wasn't convinced that Carolina was actually Gaviota. Sebastián decided to quit his job as the ceo of Cafexport so he can move to Santa Marta with Gaviota, Iván, Lucrecia, and Lucía devise a evil plan to get Sebastián away from Cafexport so when Iván fires Gaviota, he's not there to defend her. Iván called Gaviota to his office to confront her that they know who she actually is, he harshly fired her and lied to her that Sebastián never loved her and was actually using her, believing what Iván told her about Sebastián, she left Cafexport humiliated, heartbroken, and mad, she and her mother moved to a different location of city so Sebastián doesn't find her again. 
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