La fuerza del destino (English title: The Power of Destiny)[1] is an original Mexican telenovela produced by Rosy Ocampo for Televisa,[2] and aired on Canal de las Estrellas from 14 March 2011 to 31 July 2011.

With stellar performance of Delia Casanova, Leticia Calderón and Pedro Armendáriz Jr., who died a few months after finishing his work in this story.

[2][5] 14 year old Iván (Adriano Zendejas) returns with his mother, Alicia (Leticia Calderón), to Álamos, Sonora, his birthplace.

Alicia keeps her son's origin a secret and is forced to accept the job as a servant for the Lomelí Curiel family, where Doña Carlota (Delia Casanova), her daughter Lucrecia (Rosa María Bianchi), her son-in-law Gerardo (Alejandro Tommasi), and their two daughters, the teen Maripaz (Ilse Zamarripa) and Lucía (Renata Notni) live.

He crosses the border illegally, still recovering from the beating and fighting the natural elements of the desert between Mexico and the United States.

Anthony who is a lonely but rich man with only his dog Max to accompany him decides to help Iván financially so that he can accomplish his dreams of becoming an engineer.

Iván gets several pieces of surprising news when he returns to Sonora, among them is that the child he conceived with Maripaz mysteriously disappeared the same day he was born, and no one has known about him since then.

Lucía continues with the divorce proceedings, and during the court process, Perlita's custody meets challenges after DNA results prove she is not the daughter of Iván.

After undergoing hypnosis therapy, Lucía finally gets to recall the face of her attacker as Saúl (Ferdinando Valencia), Juan Jaime's son.

Maripaz agrees to donate a kidney and during the operation she dies, saving her mother's life and is recognized by Alex as a hero.

In the end, Saúl imprisoned and commits suicide in his prison cell, and Iván and Lucía finally get married while Camilo meets a woman at their wedding.