Caray, Caray!

Eduardo Juárez Cruz / Franco Santoro - Fernando Colunga is a happy, noble boy, of profound sentiments, who adores his mother. His father died when Eduardo was 6 years old, from him Eduardo inherited his love of animals and respect for nature. He is a dreamer, but his love for Fernanda is solid as a rock. Even though Barbara's malice will separate them for years, when he sees her again he realizes his love is intact and he will fight for Fernanda and for justice.

Fernanda Elizalde Rivera - Silvia Navarro - beautiful, sweet, generous, of strong convictions, without social prejudice and worried for other people. Her innocent heart suffers a great blow when she is separated from Eduardo and, a little while later, when her mother dies. Her positive attitude helps her recover from her losses. When she groes up and works in the family business, she wants to open a center of handicraft activities (aha! Gewgaws R Us!) for her community.

Bárbara Greco / Rebeca Sánchez - Lucero is a beautiful and intelligent, but also perverse and manipulative, woman, who will do anything to succeed in her intentions. A childhood full of blows and abuse deformed her soul, and her way out was to assassinate her parents. Years later, under the name of Barbara Greco, she gets a job in the Gonzalo businesses in order to destroy the Elizalde family on Artemio's orders.

Gonzalo Elizalde - Rogelio Guerra is a rich hacienda owner and owns an important dairy business. An educated, honest, hardworking and responsible man, goodnatured and kind, easily manipulated by emotional blackmail. When he becomes a widow, he marries his assistant Barbara, whom he trusts blindly. He is considered a fortunate and happy man.

Monserrat Rivera de Elizalde - Erika Buenfil - beautiful, distinguished and traditional, with strong religious and moral principles that she promotes in her children. She is a classist and keeps her distance from the serving class. Her children are at difficult ages and she cannot communicate with them. She resents Soledad, the housekeeper, who better understands Santiago, Fernanda and Liliana, and has gained their affection and respect.

Damián Gallardo - Sergio Sendel is Fernanda's fiance. [And our favorite cellphone hurler.] A social climber allied with Barbara, who hires him to work in the business as Finance Director. He woos Fernanda on Barbara's instructions, and gets her to accept his wedding proposal. He left his home when he was of age because he was sick of his overprotective mother, Ursula.

Soledad Cruz - María Rojo is Eduardo's mother, and her son is the world to her. Widowed after just a few years of marriage, she dedicated herself to caring for the Elizondo children. When Barbara arrives, Don Gonzalo cedes the important decisions in the home and the business to her little by little. Soledad confronts the new assistant when she notices her viciousness. Barbara dedicates herself to nullifying Soledad, separating her from her son for many years and threatening to kill him.

Liliana Elizalde - Dominika Paleta - of strong convictions and noble sentiments, she is frank and direct, she hates hypocrisy. She is a vivacious, rebellious teenager. She is her mother's headache and her father's joy. She loves Soledad and Eduardo very much and protects her little sister Fernanda. Her life goes to pieces when Barbara frames her for the assassination of Monserrat and she spends years hidden in a psychiatric clinic.

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