La Mentira (Lit. title: The Lie / International title: Twisted Lies) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carlos Sotomayor for Televisa. The telenovela aired on Canal de las Estrellas from July 13, 1998 to November 27, 1998. It is an adaptation of the 1965 telenovela of the same name.
It stars Kate del Castillo, Guy Ecker, Karla Álvarez, Salvador Pineda, Rosa María Bianchi, Sergio Basáñez and Eric del Castillo.
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Plot
Demetrio Azunsolo arrives in a small remote village in Jalisco where his beloved half-brother, Ricardo Platas, used to live and run a tequila plantation, only to find out that the latter has just committed suicide, after being betrayed by a selfish, greedy woman.
Little by little, and thanks to the village inhabitants - who at first are hostile towards him but then become his friends - Demetrio puts together the pieces of the puzzle that led to the tragedy.
The clues bring him to Mexico City, in the villa of a wealthy family, the Fernandez-Negretes who are the owners of the FERNE Bank, one of the most important banks in Mexico, where Ricardo had spent some time in the past as a trusted worker.
According to the info he has in hand, in that house lives the woman who is the cause of Ricardo's suicide. Demetrio meets two young women there, both nieces of the family: the innocent and fragile Virginia Fernandez-Negrete and the dynamic and self-confident Verónica Fernandez-Negrete.
Not sure who of them is the guilty one, Demetrio gets trapped in a series of co-incidences and sly gossip and ends up believing in the end that the woman he is looking for is Verónica.
Once ascertained, he puts to practice his plan for revenge. He flirts with Verónica, seduces her and makes her fall in love with him so as to marry him. After the wedding, he practically abducts her and brings her to the small remote village where Ricardo ended his life, decides to make her life a misery and take revenge for his brother's death.
Little does he know that he, as well as Verónica, are in fact victims of someone whose angel face hides a demonic soul and who actually was the one responsible for Ricardo's suicide.
When he finds out, it seems that all is lost as Verónica abandons him because he doesn't trust her and instead has been taken in by gossip and deception; so he must struggle to regain her love. In the end, love wins, but not without cost.
Cast
Main
Kate del Castillo as Verónica Fernández-Negrete
Guy Ecker as Demetrio Azúnsolo
Karla Álvarez as Virginia Fernández-Negrete
Salvador Pineda as Dr. Francisco Moguel
Rosa María Bianchi as Sara Montero de Fernández-Negrete
Sergio Basáñez as Juan Fernández-Negrete Montero
Eric del Castillo as Teodoro Fernández-Negrete
Blanca Guerra as Miranda Montesinos
Aarón Hernán as Father Pablo Williams
Carlos Cámara as Don José "Pepe" Diez
Silvia Mariscal as Leticia "Lety" Montero
Guillermo Rivas as Professor Aguirre
Tony Bravo as André Belot
Tina Romero as Irma de Moguel
Luis Gatica as Santiago Terrazas
Israel Jaitovich as Jacinto Ávila
Roxana Castellanos as Yadira Balanzario
Amparo Garrido as Antonia "Toña"
Julio Bracho as Carlitos Jr.
Recurring
Mayrín Villanueva as Nicole Belot
José Antonio Ferral as Natalicio Gómez "Don Nato"
Claudia Eliza Aguilar as Gildarda
Vanessa Arias as Beatriz "Betty"
Gabriela Arroyo as Maruquita
Antonio de la Vega as Pepe Martínez
Vicente Herrera as Mauricio Pérez
Gustavo Negrete as Carlos
Rodrigo Abed as Ricardo Platas
Alex Trillanes as Marcos
Claudia Troyo as Irazema
Audrey Vera as Karla
Sergio Reynoso as Lawyer Ernesto Saucedo
Liza Willert as Mrs. Gilbert
Carmela Masso as Chona
Eugenia Avendaño as Guadalupe de Martínez
Alexandra Monterrubio as Julia
Miguel Ángel Biaggio as Waiter