The most legendary telenovela couples
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The most legendary telenovela couples

Latin America's living romantic mythology: the telenovela couples millions of us watched fall in love, who became archetypes of love itself.

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Latin America's living romantic mythology: the telenovela couples millions of us watched fall in love, who became archetypes of love itself.

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Betty & Armando 13
Colombia · "Yo soy Betty, la fea", 1999

Betty & Armando

The most successful telenovela in history

The "ugly," brilliant secretary Beatriz Pinzón and her boss Armando Mendoza: the love story that defies appearances and that the whole world adopted.

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Colombia · "Café con aroma de mujer", 1994

Gaviota & Sebastián

Love across classes in the coffee country

The coffee-picker and the plantation heir: a love across classes that became the most-watched telenovela in Colombian history and was reborn on Netflix in 2021.

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Rubí & Alejandro 48
Mexico · "Rubí", 2004

Rubí & Alejandro

The ambition that killed love

The beautiful, ambitious Rubí loves the doctor Alejandro but abandons him to marry for money: the most iconic antiheroine of the Mexican telenovela, undone by her own ambition.

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Mexico · "Marimar", 1994

Marimar & Sergio

From poverty to revenge for love

The humble Marimar, humiliated by the wealthy family of her beloved Sergio, returns as a powerful woman to win him back: the most-watched Cinderella fantasy of the 1990s.

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Juan & Norma 55
Colombia · "Pasión de gavilanes", 2003

Juan & Norma

Passion, revenge and three brothers

The Reyes brother who approaches Norma Elizondo to avenge his sister and ends up hopelessly in love: the most scorching telenovela of the new millennium.

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Topping the list is Betty & Armando: The "ugly," brilliant secretary Beatriz Pinzón and her boss Armando Mendoza: the love story that defies appearances and that the whole world adopted.

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