Querida Enemiga

Querida Enemiga Aquí se cocina el amor, se sazona la ambición y la traición está en su punto
Created by	Pablo Sierra Erika Johanson
Starring	Ana Layevska Gabriel Soto Jorge Aravena Carmen Becerra María Rubio
Opening theme	Te Ha Robado by Manuel Mijares
Country of origin	Mexico
Original language(s)	Spanish
No. of episodes	110
Production
Executive producer(s)	Lucero Suárez
Running time	42 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Canal de las Estrellas
Picture format	NTSC
Original run	May 12, 2008 (2008-05-12) – October 10, 2008 (2008-10-10)
Chronology
Preceded by	Palabra de Mujer
Followed by	En Nombre del Amor
External links
Website

Querida Enemiga (Dearest Enemy) is a telenovela distributed by Televisa. It starts Ana Layevska, Gabriel Soto, and Jorge Aravena as three main protagonists and Carmen Becerra as the main villain of the story. The telenovela is a production of Lucero Suárez.

Synopsis

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

Lorena's greatest wish is to become a chef and so, one day she says goodbye to the nuns who raised her at the orphanage and leaves to study cuisine in Mexico City. That same day, the Mother Superior discovers that Sara had stolen some of the funds of the orphanage. However, after she confronts Sara, she suffers a heart attack and dies. So to avoid getting caught any further, Sara runs with her lover and accomplice Chalo, who is also the delivery guy/driver of the orphanage. But before she leaves, she goes through the files the Mother Superior had in her office for each orphaned child and stole two files – hers and Lorena's.

When she finally reads them, she learns that she was found in the garbage dump, while Lorena was abandoned in the orphanage without explanation by her grandmother, the millionaire Hortensia Armendáriz. 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 Armendáriz gastronomic empire. Believing she would never see Lorena again, Sara thought her plan was foolproof.

Unaware of what happened, Lorena finds work as a cook's aid in her own grandmother's company – a lady who is ruthless in her work area and demands perfection from all her workers. Lorena also meets a young doctor called Alonso and they fall in love with each other at first sight. Later on, Sara has an unexpected reunion with Lorena in the company and the girl's constant presence infuriates her and feels that if Lorena were to ever know the truth of her past she may want to reclaim what is truly hers and she would be once again poor. So 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. Eventually, Sara managed to take away everything that belonged to Lorena, her life, her love and even her parents who for a while believed Sara to be their long lost daughter.

When Lorena starts to discover Sara's evil machinations against her, she realizes that she never truly knew the one she loved as a sister. But in spite of her broken heart, she will bravely face betrayal, deceit and cruelty and even find a new hope hand in hand with someone she never expected to love – Ernesto. A man who at first glance seemed the total opposite of who she was. She never dreamed that they would have something special between them, but Ernesto managed to convince her otherwise. Slowly he reconstructs Lorena's broken heart, healing it with his love for her and showing her to love and trust someone else again.

Cast

Broadcasting

Country	TV network(s)	Series premiere	Series end
México	Canal de las Estrellas	May 12, 2008	October 10, 2008
United States	Univision	June 23, 2008	November 28, 2008
Peru	America Television	July 1, 2008	November 28, 2008
Bulgaria	Diema Family	September 15, 2008	February 13, 2009
Argentina	Canal 9	October 1, 2008	March 5, 2009
Croatia	HRT 1	March 24, 2009	July 31, 2009
Romania	Acasă	May 16, 2011	September 8, 2011
Poland	Zone romantica	July 22, 2009	December 23, 2009
Macedonia	Kanal 5
Iran	Pmc Family
Philippines	Telenovela Channel	April 2014

Versions

• The Greek version is titled "The life of another" produced in 2009 Mega Channel.

References

External links

• Querida Enemiga at the Internet Movie Database