Lazos de Amor
Genre	Telenovela
Created by	Carmen Daniels
Written by	Carmen Daniels Tere Medina
Screenplay by	Carmen Daniels
Story by	Jorge Lozano Soriano
Directed by	Miguel Córcega Monica Miguel
Starring	Lucero Luis José Santander
Theme music composer	José Cantoral
Opening theme	"Lazos de amor" performed by Lucero
Country of origin	Mexico
Original language	Spanish
No. of episodes	100
Production
Executive producer	Carla Estrada
Producer	Arturo Lorca
Cinematography	Isabel Basurto Alejandro Frutos
Editors	Juan Franco Antonio Trejo
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Production company	Televisa
Original release
Network	Canal de las Estrellas
Release	2 October 1995 (1995-10-02) – 23 February 1996 (1996-02-23)
Related
Tres veces Ana

Lazos de amor (English title: Τies of love) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carla Estrada for Televisa in 1995.^[1] It stars Lucero and Luis José Santander.

Plot

The series centers around María Guadalupe, María Paula and María Fernanda, identical triplets (all played by Lucero) with non-identical, complex personalities. When they all were very young, they were victims of a car accident that killed their parents.

As a result of the accident, María Guadalupe is presumed dead when she disappears after falling into a river. Instead, she suffers from amnesia and forgets she has a family and two sisters. Ana Salas, who is going through a tragedy coping with her own mother's death, raises María Guadalupe as her own, even after becoming aware of her true identity.

María Fernanda is a sweet girl who hopes to find her sister, but as a result of the accident is left blind. María Paula is different from her sisters in that she's glamorous, selfish and extremely jealous; however, she also harbors a devastating secret about the accident.

After an illness brings María Guadalupe and Ana to México City, María Guadalupe falls in love with Nicolás, a cab driver and good-hearted man, who had just moved to México to live with his grandmother. Living in fear that someone may recognize her daughter, Ana restricts María Guadalupe's actions, but Nicolás's grandmother learns Ana's secret without saying a word.

The girls' grandmother, Mercedes, and their uncle, Eduardo, have been searching for missing María Guadalupe for years, and the story inches closer and closer to the revelation of the truth as the ties of love eventually draw the three sisters together, weaving through the lives of those that surround them in unexpected ways.

Cast

Controversial ending

In the final episode, Maria Paula locks her two sisters in the basement of her mansion and holds them hostage. As their uncle Eduardo tries to rescue them, Maria Paula shoots and kills him. In an off-screen melee, as Gerardo and Nicolas come to check on them well-being, another gunshot is heard by the viewing audience and both Maria Guadalupe and Maria Fernanda emerge from the room relatively unscathed, while Maria Paula is rolled out in a body bag along with Eduardo. Maria Guadalupe and Nicolas then have a typical fairy tale novela wedding. In the final scene, Maria Guadalupe and Nicolas are in a hotel room on their honeymoon, but when the camera zooms into Maria Guadalupe's face, she rubs her eyebrow with her pinky finger, which was Maria Paula's trademark idiosyncratic habit. This left viewers to speculate whether it was actually Maria Guadalupe instead of Maria Paula who died by gunshot wound and Maria Paula had assumed her identity.

The show's ending since then had left fans to debate over the fate of the two. Questions came up such as the timing of Maria Paula being able to change clothes, jewelry, makeup, and hair appearance with Maria Guadalupe before supposedly shooting her until help arrived, as well as how Maria Guadalupe was able to get loose and grab the gun to shoot Maria Paula.

In 2019 Lucero gave her opinion on who was the one that had survived in the final episode, believing that it was Maria Guadalupe.

Awards and nominations

Album

Lazos de amor
Soundtrack album by Lucero
Released	1995 (1995)
Recorded	1989-1995
Genre	Pop
Label	Melody
Lucero chronology
Siempre Contigo (1994) Lazos de amor (1995) Piel de Ángel (1997)
Singles from Siempre Contigo
"Lazos de Amor"

Due to the telenovela's success, Televisa published a soundtrack, which included previously released songs by Lucero as well as three versions of the theme song of the series.

References

External links

• Lazos de Amor at IMDb