- Not to be confused with Fuego en la sangre.
Fuego en la Sangre (Fire in the Blood) is the telenovela that began transmissions on January 21, 2008, through Mexico's XEW-TV, referred to as the Canal de las Estrellas. The novela is a production of Salvador Mejía Alejandre and the stars are Eduardo Yáñez, Adela Noriega, Pablo Montero, and Jorge Salinas. It is the Mexican remake of the Colombian soap operas Las Aguas Mansas and Pasion de Gavilanes. Its theme song is by Vicente Fernández called "Para Siempre".It is also being transmissioned on Univision in the United States.
Synopsis
Fuego en la Sangre is a remake of the popular Colombian soap operas, called Las Aguas Mansas, and Pasión de Gavilanes.
Juan, Oscar and Franco Reyes who, in front the tomb of their sister Libia, swear to avenge her death. Libia died in strange circumstances after finding out her future husband, Bernardo Elizondo, is dead and was married with three daughters while he had a relationship with her.
Distraught and heartbroken at the the news, she goes to a river to denounce him while her older brothers go out in the rain, frantically looking for her. Fernando, Sophia's greedy and abusive husband, is also looking for her, after finding out the pregnant Libia could inherit some of Bernardo's money through her unborn son.
Finding her near the river, he ambushes Libia and forcefully drowns her but she kept on escaping so he finds the nearest tree bark and hits her head continually until she finally dies, leaving the corpse there and going back home unnoticed. The next morning, the police find her body in the river; the brothers are summoned to the site and told it was a suicide.
They, however, do not believe that their sister could commit suicide because she was pregnant and so, they vow to find their sister's killer and destroy the Elizondo family for Libia. In order to fulfill their oath, the brothers go to the property of the Elizondo family in order to take revenge; but instead, after an unexpected confrontation with Don Agustín Acevedo, the father-in-law of Bernardo, and Eva, the family's servant, they are obliged to build a house inside the Elizondo family properties and pose as construction workers, replacing the ones that had already signed up for the job. This job later comes to their advantage in terms of their revenge.
With the purpose of investigating the person who caused the death of Libia, they begin to work on the house and soon they meet the three daughters of Bernardo Elizondo: Sofia, Sarita, and Jimena, as well as the conservative Gabriela Acevedo, Bernardo's former wife.
This encounter changes the course of the brothers' revenge. They decide that instead of committing a crime that harms them in the end, they are better off seducing the sisters then leaving them so that they live in their own misery, similar to Libia's suffering. The oldest brother Juan will seduce Sofia, Oscar will seduce Ximena, and Franco will seduce Sarita.
But the tables are turned when the brothers discover the sisters' different facets and begin falling in love with the sheltered girls. Juan will find in Sofia a sensible and charitable woman, whose life has denied her the possibility of being happy because of a trauma (she was raped, unbeknownst to her by Fernando) and forced to marry Fernando to not cause the family any shame; according to her mother. Juan and Sofia have very strong confrontations that will cause them both to fall in love with one another. But Fernando, who is heavily favored by Gabriela, not ready to lose his wife, and with his possessive and cruel personality, causes much rife not only between Juan and Sofia, but among all characters in the telenovela.
Oscar will find in Ximena his other half. She is an elegant girl whose one desire is to live a life that corresponds to a girl of her age. Her one true wish is to fall deeply in love. She, unlike her older sisters Sophia and Sarita, is more daring and does not wish to live and die a virgin. She falls in love first, with Oscar, gets married to him. They will establish a full relationship based on sensuality and eroticism. But, like her sisters, will face many problems with their mother because of the men they have fallen in love with.
Franco and Sarita are most likely the hardest couple to actually come together. Both sensible, loving souls who enjoy reading poetry and other literature, their naiveté will allow them to live a very tender love, full of unforeseen expenses and mix-ups because of Rosario Montes, a singer who maintained a strange relation with Franco years ago and with whom Franco is still very much in love with. Franco will have to decide between both relationships. Problems arise from issues dealing with Sarita's conservative nature and, also, from Fernando, who has been keeping Rosario as his on-the-side lover by threatening her with the disappearance of her young son. Still one night Franco and Sarita get drunk and end up getting married. They find out when they wake up in the woods. Sarita is mad and thinks Franco planned this but he didn't. She ends up living with her sisters and her husband and brothers-in-law until they all move out when they find out the truth.
Also on the subplots the viewer will keep track of Eva, a housemaid of the Elizondo family who was in love with Bernardo, despite Bernardo not remembering their only night of passion which resulted in a child. Gabriela forced her to give up the child upon hearing the news. Her job is to hold on to all the uncomfortable secrets that surround the family, during the progress she will learn that her daughter was sent to Raquel, one of Gabriela´s friends. Don Agustín, the grandfather of the Elizondo children who is in a wheelchair and a bit insane, always keeps plotting against Gabriela, his daughter and tries to defend the Elizondo children as long as he can. And Padre Tadeo, the priest of the town who begins to know every secret from the past through his confessional booth and who tries in vain to solve issues beyond his control.
They will go through many situations, many confrontations, encounters, and mix-ups which result in a painful decision for the Robles Reyes brothers: free themselves of the oath that they made to Libia, or be with the women whom they love in spite of everything.
Cast
Main cast
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Guest stars
Reception
Fuego's premier was the highest-rated in Univision history; through its third week on Univision, all five weekly episodes have been listed among Nielsen's Top Ten Hispanic weekly survey.
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