''Tormenta en el paraíso'' (English: ''Storm over Paradise'') is a Mexican
telenovela
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Televisa
Grupo Televisa, S.A.B., simply known as Televisa, is a Mexican telecommunications and broadcasting company. A major Latin American mass media corporation, it often presents itself as the largest producer of Spanish-language content.
In April ...
. The telenovela premiered on
Canal de las Estrellas
Las Estrellas () is a Mexican television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. Its first official broadcast took place on 21 March 1951. It airs free-to-air through affiliate stations throughout Mexico, based on XEW-TDT in Mexico City.
It is co ...
In 1519, a Mayan priest, Ahzac, discovers that his daughter Ixmy has fallen in love with a white foreigner. He plans to sacrifice her as a gift to the gods, along with items made of gold and a black pearl. Ixmy avoids her fate, and Ahzac curses the black pearl: "Whoever has this pearl in their possession will never be able to know what happiness is!"
In 1987, Eliseo Bravo and Hernán Lazcano explore the coral reefs of
Cozumel
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and discover the black pearl. When Hernán touches the pearl, Ahzac's curse takes effect. Eliseo's greed leads to Hernán's death, leaving his wife Analy to raise their newborn daughter Aymar alone.
Nineteen years later, Aymar Lazcano is a beautiful young woman. Aymar meets and falls in love with Nicolás Bravo. After her mother is murdered by a jealous old suitor of hers, Aymar lives with a family friend Pablo Solis.
Avaricious Maura Duran meets the main characters in the guise of Karina Rosemberg, a rich heiress whose land Eliseo covets. Manipulated by Maura, Eliseo detests Aymar and her relationship with his son and Maura falls in love with Eliseo's oldest son David.
The real Karina Rosemberg was crazy because she saw her parents burned alive. She was in the care of an old man who found her wandering. Unfortunately he died and afterwards Aymar took care of her.. Karina had met David and fallen in love with him, despite his drunkenness at the time, but he does not reciprocate her feelings because he is infatuated with Maura. Maura's attempts to separate Aymar and Nicolás include a fake pregnancy (with Nicolás, the alleged father), an attempted murder and the killing of Nicolás' youngest brother, Leonardo.
Sirenita who is the real Karina Rosemberg decides to run away from home because David confesses his love to someone else. She meets a kind women who helps her get over her feelings for David by giving her a makeover and teaching her manners.
At the end of the series, Maura is stung by a swarm of bees and dies of anaphylactic shock. David and Karina and Aymar and Nicolás marry, and both couples are happy – Nicolás and Aymar with their son Hernán Nicolás Jr. and their nephew Leonardo; and Karina and David with their son Elisèo David.
Frances Ondiviela
Francisca Ondiviela Otero (born May 19, 1962), known professionally as Frances Ondiviela, is a Spanish-Mexican actress known for starring in the telenovela '' Acorralada''.
Ondiviela was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. She studied theatre ...
as María Teresa Andrade de Bravo
* Úrsula Prats as Luisa Linares vda. de Durán
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Macaria
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* Macaria (daughter of Heracles), Macaria, daughter of Heracles and Deianira who willingly accepted to be sa ...
as Paloma Martínez
* Delia Casanova as Micaela Trinidad
*Adalberto Parra as Nakuk Kum
*Oscar Traven as Mario Abascal
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Evelio Arias Ramos
Evelio Arias Ramos (10 September 1966 – 4 November 2008) was a Mexicans, Mexican actor, comedian and singer.Ferdinando Valencia as Lisandro Bravo Martínez
*Arturo Posada as Rigo
*Federico Pizarro as Raúl Abascal
*Salvador Ibarra as Cirilo
*Ricardo Guerra as Cuco
*Juan Carlos Serrán as Lucio Trinidad
* Maribel Fernández as Carmelita de Trinidad
*Pietro Vannucci as Botel
*Vicente Herrera as Aquilino Sánchez
*Patricia Martínez as Donata
* Dobrina Cristeva as Cleotilde
*Marco Uriel as Dr. Andrés Gutiérrez
* José Luis Reséndez as David Bravo
* Julio Camejo as José Miguel Díaz Luna
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Alejandra Procuna
Alejandra Weinstein Procuna (born August 14, 1969, Mexico City, Mexico), is a Mexican actress
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Vielka Valenzuela
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José Carlos Ruiz
José Carlos Ruiz (born 17 November 1936) is a Mexican film and television actor. He starred in telenovelas such as '' María Isabel'', '' Soñadoras'', '' Mariana de la noche'', '' Sortilegio'', '' Soy tu dueña'', '' Un refugio para el amor' ...
as Ahzac
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Lupita Jones
María Guadalupe "Lupita" Jones Garay (; born 6 September 1967) is a Mexican producer, actress and model. She was crowned Miss Universe 1991, and was the first Mexican contestant to win a major international beauty pageant.
Education
Before be ...