La gloria y el infierno (English title:Glory and Hell) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Gonzalo Martínez Ortega and Juan Osorio for Televisa in 1986.^[1] It is based on the novel Duel in the Sun by American writer Niven Busch. It starred Ofelia Medina, Héctor Bonilla, Fernando Balzaretti and Saby Kamalich.

Plot

After the Mexican Revolution, Sara Vallarta, wife of Fernando de Michoacán a landowner agrees to meet with his cousin and former boyfriend, Sebastian Arteaga. To avoid rumors, Concerta appointment in an abandoned church and go along with his two sons, Michael and Sergio. Sebastian confesses he has joined an Indian with whom he has a daughter, Agnes, but that has never stopped loving her.

He asks Sara that if something happens to him, care for your family. Just Sebastián goes, appears Fernando who explained while Sara immediately assumes she is unfaithful and since then, ejected from his bed and does not return you to talk to. Although Sara is still living in the home of her ex-husband, is practically a ghost because it is completely ignored.

Sebastian dies, and his wife, Sara proud not go where, however, relates to the owner of a tavern not caring that Inés grow in such sordid environment. Twenty years later, President Lázaro Cárdenas began his agrarian program of expropriation of farms, and Fernando Vallarta is the main opposition to this measure. Just in these circumstances is when the beautiful orphan Inés comes to live with Vallarta.

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