Pobre Rico Pobre
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Pobre Rico Pobre is a Mexican telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...

, based on the Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

n telenovela Nuevo Rico Nuevo Pobre
Nuevo Rico Nuevo Pobre
Nuevo Rico Nuevo Pobre is a Colombian telenovela produced and broadcast by Caracol TV starring Martín Karpan, John Alex Toro , Maria Cecilia Botero, Carolina Acevedo, Hugo Gómez, former Miss Colombia Andrea Noceti and Andrés Toro .The show started on July 16, 2007 on Caracol TV and it is...

. The show started 21 April 2008.

Plot

The soap opera deals with the life of Andrés Ferreira and Brayan Galindo, from rich and poor families respectively. A mistake was made when they were born, because Andrés, originally of the poor family, was given to the rich family, and Brayan of the rich family went with the poor family. 30 years later the nurse who made the mistake reveals the truth to the families, and Brayan goes to live with the rich family, and Andres goes with the poor family.

Cultural aspects

The name of Brayan Galindo reflects an irregular adaptation of Brian to the Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

, to the equal one of Rosmery (by anerior Rosemary). It reflects the fact that many Latin Americans adopt foreign names thinking that it is an indication of socioeconomic status.

The use of earpieces bluetooth in permanent form and cellular an intelligent Treo 650 by Andrés Ferreira tries to accentuate its characteristic Yuppies. Andrés is portrayed as a very arrogant person, who gives no vacations on Christmas to his employees and ignores his mother's advices. So his mother wants to give a lesson to Andrés by exchanging Brayan's and Andrés' roles. During this event Andrés falls in love with Rosmery while Brayan breaks his relationship with her because he has begun an affaire with María Fernanda, a super-model fortune-hunter who was Andrés' girlfriend.

The social consequences of massive dismissals of 200 employees as result of a reconstruction inserts a dramatic effect in the plot, and contribute to create a cold image of the enterprise world and Andrés Ferreira.

Cast

  • Héctor Arredondo - Andrés Ferreira
  • Cinthia Vázquez - Rosmery Peláez
  • Patricia Vásquez - Fernanda San Miguel
  • Victor Garcia
    Victor Garcia
    Victor Garcia and similar may refer to:* Víctor Manuel García Valdés, Cuban painter* Victor Garcia , Argentine stage director* Victor G...

     - Brayan Galindo
  • Patricia Bernal - Antonia Vda. de Ferreira
  • Luis Felipe Tovar
    Luis Felipe Tovar
    Luis Felipe Tovar is a Mexican performance teacher and actor.He studied in the Theatre Fine Arts School of Mexico and in the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de La Habana in Cuba....

     - Leónidas Galindo
  • América Gabriel - Maritza Buenahora
  • Andrea Marti - Ingrid Peláez
  • Plutarco Haza
    Plutarco Haza
    Plutarco Haza is a Mexican actor raised in Mazatlán, Sinaloa.Haza produced and hosted the children's news show, Bizbirije on Canal 11. During the show's final year broadcast in 1998, he married the Polish-born Mexican actress Ludwika Paleta; they have one son...

    - Maximiliano López Ferreira.

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