Dulce Amor

Dulce Amor (in english: Sweet Love) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Canal Extra, aired in the same network between October 30, 2009 and October 15, 2010, with a total of 255 episodes. Although it is a Mexican production, Georgia Moraes, the creator of this work, is Brazilian, and the original script for this telenovela was created in 1997.

Unlike previous soap operas on Canal Extra, this one was focused more on a teenage audience, and addressed common issues that linked high school with other problems of adolescence.

Plot
The telenovela addresses the lives of several characters at the same time, as is the case of Guadalupe, a 17-year-old girl who lives in a troubled relationship with her boyfriend, Jesús, and also suffers from her mother's alcoholism, in addition to suffering from the trauma of having witnessed her father's death. It also deals with the life of Arturo, an 18-year-old mentally handicapped student who lives alone with his mother who works as a maid in the house of one of the school's teachers, Félix, and is helped by him, his mother however ends up dying victimized by a heart attack and Félix decide to become completely responsible for the young man.

Other subjects that the soap opera addresses are linked to: depression, suicide, addiction, criminality, school violence and bullying. Other characters that also marked the plot were the girl Esperanza, a depressed girl who tends to commit suicide several times, Marco, who is a victim of physical aggressions inside the school and end up completely losing his senses, planning an attack in the place of study, Flor, a girl addicted to illicit drugs that causes danger to everyone around, and Roberto, treated as a villain in the soap opera, he dropped out of school and became a robber, being part of a criminal faction, he also has a sick love for Esperanza, who is in love with Alejandro, and ignoring the bandit, Esperanza and her love are at the mercy of what Roberto is capable of doing.

Conception
The original script of Dulce Amor was already conceived long before 2009, Georgia Moraes, creator of this soap opera, created the serial that would give rise to the plot in 1997, even when she was creating soap operas in Brazil, her country of origin. Georgia had a great reputation among broadcasting executives in Brazil, as her works tended to have large audiences, and on that occasion, the executives of Rede Paguá had appointed Georgia as the author responsible for the next soap opera on the channel, the script she wrote was the even though it would give rise to Dulce Amor later, however this was rejected by the broadcaster. 12 years later, in 2009, when Georgia was already writing soap operas for Canal Extra in Mexico, she was again quoted to create the plot of the telenovela that would start to be shown from October of that year, she then decided to propose the same script that she had written in 1997, the channel's executives at first thought that the plot would not be successful, but they gave the script a chance. Between July and October 2009, the plots of the first 40 episodes of Dulce Amor were written, the scenes began to be recorded in August 2009, and in September, an ostensive marketing campaign for the production began.