Nuevo Rico Nuevo Pobre is a Colombian

Colombia

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 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"...

 produced and broadcast by Caracol TV

Caracol TV

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 starring Martín Karpan

Martin Karpan

Carlos Martín Karpan is an Argentine actor, notable for playing a heartthrob in the telenovela El Cuerpo del Deseo.- Television :* El secretario - Félix Armando Segura...

, John Alex Toro (well-known by his participation in Maria Full of Grace

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), Maria Cecilia Botero, Carolina Acevedo, Hugo Gómez, former Miss Colombia

Miss Colombia

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 Andrea Noceti and Andrés Toro (from Sin Tetas No Hay Paraíso

Sin Tetas No Hay Paraíso

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).

The show started on July 16, 2007 on Caracol TV and it is also broadcast on Ecuador

Ecuador

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's Teleamazonas

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 in primetime. Caracol TV has sold the rights of the show to Telemundo

Telemundo

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 and Fox

Fox Broadcasting Company

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. It is, as of May 2008, one of the highest rated

Audience measurement

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 TV shows in Colombia

Television in Colombia

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.

Plot

The Telenovela follows Andrés Ferreira, who was born from a poor woman and went with a rich woman, and Brayan Galindo, who was born to a rich woman and went with a poor woman.
After 30 years, Andrés went to the pensión where Brayan lived and met his true family; Brayan went to live with his real mother and his new fiancé, Fernanda Sanmiguel (who only wants him for his money, and is the lover of Andrés's cousin, Mateo). Brayan is now the owner of the Ferreira enterprise Mundo Express, and it is later revealed that Mateo, Brayan's cousin, is trying to steal his money as well as MundoExpress.

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...

. It reflects the cultural inferiority complex of many Latin
Americans, who adopt foreign names thinking that it is an indication of socioeconomic status..

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

Cast

• Martín Karpan - Andres Ferreira
• John Alex Toro - Brayan Galindo
• Carolina Acevedo - Rosmery Peláez
• Andrea Nocceti - Fernanda Sanmiguel
• Andrés Toro - Mateo Lopez Ferreira
• Maria Cecilia Botero - Antonia Vda. de Ferreira
• Hugo Gomez - Leonidas Galindo
• Diana Neira - Ingrid Peláez
• Rosmery Bohorquez - Maritza Buenahora
• Isabel Cristina Estrada - lizeth
• Mauricio Vélez - Fidel Peláez
• Jimmy Vásquez - Miller Anselmo
• Saín Castro. - Afanador
• Herbert King. - Hugo
• John Mario Rivera - Julio

External links

• Caracol TV official site (in Spanish)