Nuevo Rico, Nuevo Pobre ("Newly Rich, Newly Poor"): A modern style telenovela about two men who were accidentally Switched at Birth and are now forced by their families to exchange roles in life after they discover the secret thirty years later. The story has a strong romance plotline throughout that moves the drama, but is also filled with humor and commentary that focuses on class consciousness. Rebelde ("Rebel"), the Mexican remake of the aforementioned Argentine Rebelde Way, a Teen Drama telenovela, which also spawned a musical group. La intrusa ("The Intruder"). Roberto, about to die after a long illness, decides to ask Virginia, the babysitter of her youngest son, to agree to marry him secretly so that she can take care of his children after he dies and so that they cannot fire her. Virginia is in love with Roberto's eldest son, Carlos Alberto, but when the marriage is discovered, Roberto's children, Carlos Alberto himself included, accuse Virginia of of having married him for ambition. Things get further complicated with Virginia's poor twin sister, Vanessa, arrives. At this point it should be no surprise that it stars the same actress who starred in Deceptions, another telenovela featuring a protagonist with a doppelgänger, although here the twist is that, whereas in Deceptions one lookalike was good and the other evil, here Vanessa is just a good person as Virginia. El Pecado De Oyuki ("Oyuki´s Sin" in Spanish), based on a mexican comic written by Yolanda Vargas Dulché, relates about a Japanese geisha falling in love with a British main in XIX century. Despite its good intentions and the help from some Japanese culture groups to recreate Japanese life, customs and clothes, there were enough ' Yellow Face' (the most of the Japanese characters were Mexican actors, to the point that actor Ana Martin damaged her eyes due to the makeup effects to make her eyes look "japanese") and enough errors over traditions to make the Japanese Embassy to ask Televisa to not show the telenovela in TV again. Decisiones Extremas: A Darker and Edgier spin-off of Decisiones, which focuses more on heavy topics.

The "Marías Trilogy" ( María Mercedes, Marimar, and María la del barrio), a group of soaps with "María" in some part of their title with plots based in their titular characters' Rags to Riches, that catapulted their shared main actress, Mexican singer Thalia, from mere local fame to international superstardom. El corazón nunca se equivoca ("The Heart Is Never Wrong") the first telenovela to focus on a same-sex couple, it follows its protagonists, Ari and Temo, as they struggle with college, the different family dynamics they encounter and the prejudice of Mexican society. Anjo Mau / Angel Malo: Another telenovela which has a Gold Digger Anti Heroine, but now set in Brazil (or Chile, if we see its remake). Nada Personal ("Nothing Personal"). Made in The '90s. Noteworthy only because it was the first Mexican soap to try and deal with then-current national politics. The word "telenovela" literally translates as "TV novel", but in some Spanish-speaking countries "novela" is rarely used for actual novels (instead often used as slang for Harlequin/Mills and Boon-type novellas, which telenovelas share a lot of tropes with), which is why the 'tele-' can be dropped and not confuse anyone. In some countries, like Chile, they may be called "teleseries" (spelled "teleser yes" in the Philippines), which obviously shows how prevalent they can be. In addition, episodes for any TV series can be referred to as "capítulos" (chapters).

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The telenovela has two main styles: the classical, or "pink", and the "modern". The first style centers on classic and melodramatic pure love stories with poor, Naïve Everygirl heroines that are often Too Dumb to Live, while the second tries to use resources from other genres and explore modern social issues without neglecting the love story side. Stereotypically, the pink telenovela is a Mexican and Venezuelan staple, the modern style is predominant in Colombia and Brazil (though Mexicans and Venezuelans occasionally try their hand at it), and Chilean and Peruvian telenovelas are a mix of both. In the United States, the telenovelas brought over to cater to the large (and growing) Spanish-speaking population tend to be almost entirely of the "pink" variety.

Jane the Virgin, the American version of the Venezuelan Juana la virgen, although over time it became its own thing. Spanish and Portuguese speakers often run their soaps in Prime Time in countries where those are the major languages, like Commonwealth countries do of soaps. This is important compared to the US, where they won't make it to regular programming in daylight hours, let alone a good time slot. This means that Univision and other Spanish networks (e.g. Telemundo) can easily broadcast their novelas in the US whenever they want, which can include marathons all week if they so please, which understandably makes the target audience (supposedly elderly Latin American women with nothing else to do) very happy. This may also be helped by there being a significant US-led telenovela market, with many being produced in Miami. There's also a cable channel dedicated exclusively to showing telenovelas, Pasiones TV ("Passions TV"), which is broadcast in Latin America and the US. However, the concept has proven difficult to translate for non-Spanish speaking audiences; when Fox launched MyNetworkTV in 2006, their attempted all-English telenovela-style lineup flopped hard, dooming MNTV just as it began. Escrava Isaura ("Isaura the Slave"), a late 1970's soap about a white slave in Colonial Brazil. Exposed the Eastern Bloc to Latin soaps. It is based on a book by Bernardo Guimaraes. Los ricos también lloran ("The Rich Also Cry"), which was the first soap opera that Televisa exported to countries outside of the American continent. It became very famous in the ex-USSR countries and brought fame to Verónica Castro, the actress who played the female lead. María la del barrio is technically a remake of this one.

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Kassandra, a classic tale of Switched at Birth which become the most famous telenovela in the world during the early Nineties.