Querida Enemiga

Infobox Television
show_name = Querida Enemiga


format = Telenovelas
runtime = 60 minutes
creator = Pablo Sierra
Erika Johanson
producer =
executive_producer = Lucero Suarez
starring = Ana Layevska
Gabriel Soto
Carmen Becerra
country = flagicon|MexicoMexico
language = Spanish
network = Televisa
picture_format = NTSC
episodes = 110
first_aired = May 12, 2008
last_aired = October 10, 2008
preceded_by = Palabra de Mujer
followed_by = En Nombre del Amor
website = http://www2.esmas.com/querida-enemiga/
imdb_id =

" Querida Enemiga " (Dear Enemy) is a telenovela distributed by Televisa. It starts Ana Layevska, Gabriel Soto, Carmen Becerra and Maria Rubio. The telenovela, is a production of Lucero Suarez it premiered on May 12, 2008 at El Canal de las Estrellas and June 23, 2008 at Univision.

Synopsis

Lorena and Sara were raised together in an orphanage, and even though they have different personalities, they love each other as sisters. Lorena dreams of starting her own family and loves to cook. Sara is more materialistic; she has always hated the poverty of the orphanage, and she has more ambitions than scruples.

Lorena's greatest wish is to become a chef, and so, one day she says goodbye to the nuns who raised her and leaves to study cuisine in Mexico City. That same day, the Mother Superior discovers that Sara has stolen all the funds of the orphanage. When she confronts Sara, she suffers a heart attack and dies. Sara runs with her lover and accomplice Chalo, the driver of the orphanage. To erase all trace of her presence, she steals her file and Lorena's. When she reads them, she learns that she was found in the garbage dump, but Lorena was abandoned in the orphanage without explanation by her grandmother, the millionaire Hortensia Armendariz. Sara's first impulse is to find Lorena and help her confront her grandmother and demand her rights, but then she reconsiders her options and decides to usurp her place in the Armendariz gastronomic empire.

Totally unaware of this, Lorena finds work as a cook's aid in her grandmother's company. She also meets a young doctor called Alonso and they fall in love with each other. Sara has an unexpected reunion with Lorena in the company and the girl's constant presence infuriates her. Sara's mind betrays her and she is gradually overwhelmed by a desire to take everything away from Lorena, including Alonso, and get rid of her once and for all. When Lorena learns that Sara was abandoned by her grandmother, she cries for her friend and is filled with contempt for Hortensia. Meanwhile, Hortensia uses all her resources to avoid confronting the pain she has caused to everyone around her.

When Lorena discovers Sara's evil machinations against her, she realizes that she never truly knew the one she loves as a sister. But in spite of her broken heart, she will bravely face betrayal, deceit and cruelty. And she will find new hope hand in hand with someone she never expected to love her.

Cast

* Ana Layevska as Lorena de la Cruz
* Gabriel Soto as Alonso Ugarte
* Jorge Aravena as Ernesto Mendiola
* Carmen Becerra as Sara de la Cruz, villain
* María Rubio as Hortensia Armendariz, villain, later good
* Mike Biaggio as Chalo Carrasco, villain, later good
* Luis Xavier as Jaime Armendariz
* Luz María Jerez as Barbara Armendariz
* Jose Manuel Lechuga as Vasco Armendariz
* Alfonso Iturralde as Omar Armendariz
* Socorro Bonilla as Zulema Armendariz
* Jose Carlos Femat as Julian
* Luz Elena González as Diana
* Marco Méndez as Bruno, villain
* Eduardo Rivera as Dario
* Sharis Cid as Paula
* Danna Paola as Bettina
* Patricia Martínez as Maria Eugenia "Maruja" Martinez de Armendariz
* Bibelot Mansur as Rossy
* Mauricio Aspe as Arturo, villain
* Hector Ortega as Toribio
* Zully Keith as Catalina
* Dalilah Polanco as Greta
* Alexandra Grana as Jacqueline, villain
* Adanelly Nunez as Valeria
* Mercedes Vaughan as Mother Carmelita
* María Alicia Delgado as Mother Trinidad
* Jesus Zavala as Ivan
* Nuria Bages as Mother Asuncion