El Amor no Tiene Precio

El amor no tiene precio
Developed by	Televisa
Starring	Susana González Victor Noriega Eugenia Cauduro Victor González Yul Bürkle Altair Jarabo/ Alejandra Lazcano
Music by	Iván
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	Spanish
No. of episodes	280
Production
Executive producer(s)	Leonardo Galavis
Producer(s)	Alfredo Schwarz
Running time	60 minutes
Release
Original network	Televisa
Original release	September 26, 2005 (2005-09-26) – October 20, 2006 (2006-10-20)
Chronology
Preceded by	Piel de Otoño
Followed by	Peregrina
External links
[{{#property:P856}} Website]

El amor no tiene precio ("Love has no price") is an American telenovela. It aired in 2005 until the series finale in 2006.

Plot

Maria Liz lives in a poor neighborhood in Mexico City with her maternal grandmother, Mrs. Gonzalez and her English grandfather, Henry Alexander. Maria Liz was 12 years old when her mother fell into a deep depression and died. Mr. Alexander was once rich, but lost his fortune in a stock market crash. This, combined with the loss of his wife, sent him into a mental decline. With effort and determination, Maria Liz managed to finish her studies and became a nurse, although she does not live her dream to study medicine. Maria Liz also helps her boyfriend, Marcelo, who studies engineering. But, Marcelo is an egotistical man who only thinks about finishing his career and leaving the neighborhood as soon as he obtains a good job, forgetting the sacrifices that his parents and Maria Liz have made. In an elegant district of the city, Sebastián lives with his mother, Doña Lucrecia. Sebastián is a civil engineer and a working man. He detests the false world in which his mother lives due to the fortune that she inherited from her husband for her political family. Marcelo finds a job as a construction worker at the construction site where Sebastián works and immediately forgets his promise of marriage to Maria Liz. He begins to try anything to take Sebastián's position at the site and his girlfriend, Araceli, who is the daughter of the owner of the construction site. When Marcelo is wounded in a work site accident, Sebastián takes him to the hospital where Maria Liz works. Although the first encounter is conflicting, Sebastián realizes that she is a very good nurse and soon helps her so that she takes care of his mother. But Doña Lucrecia begins to make his life a living hell for him when she finds out that Sebastián has fallen in love with Maria Liz, and she loves him back. Doña Lucrecia wants the economic security and the social level that Maria Liz obtains that the selfish and superficial Araceli would give him, thus she is allied with Rosalía, who always hated María Liz because Dr. Arnaldo Herrera is in love with her when Rosalía loved him. In spite of the obstacles that Araceli, Lucrecia and Rosalía put to them to test their love, they do not manage to separate them. They decide to get married and problems begin when the villainous Luciano sets a trap for Miguel Augusto that made him commit suicide. Seabastián married María Liz at the wedding and she is in love with him. Mariano falls in love with María Liz, who discovers that she has gotten pregnant by Sebastián.
Araceli is also pregnant by Sebastian, but her careless lifestyle and excessive drinking cause her to miscarry. Realizing that a child is the only thing that would keep Sebastian from walking out on her (he's just learned of Maria Liz's pregnancy), she enlists the help of Lucrecia and Rosalía. They kidnap Maria Liz and take her to a clinic where a C-Section is performed on her, and the child is taken from her womb. Rosalia then removes Araceli's name from her medical report and replaced with Maria Liz's, making it appear that Maria Liz is the negligent one, not Araceli. Maria Liz protests her innocence, but Sebastian refuses to believe her, and declares that he never wants to see her again. Heartbroken, she leaves to study medicine in London, returning several years later a full-fledged doctor. In the meantime, however, Sebastian realizes the truth about Araceli, and that Maria Liz was telling the truth all along. He divorces her, but Araceli gets custody of the 2 children, Vanessa and Liliana. She marries Marcelo soon after, but it is a loveless marriage, and Vanessa & Liliana is physically and mentally abused by both of them. In the series finale, Mariano Lujan was sent to the insane asylum in Miami, Florida for a long period of time for his participation in Maria Liz's kidnapping (Geraldine Bazan), Ivana Santalucia freezes to death in a meat plant and the psychotic Marcelo and his mentor-turned-enemy Luciano Robles del Campo die a slow and painful death after stabbing each other. Because of her ties with Luciano, Lucrecia loses her entire fortune and is reduced to being a washerwoman for her sister Doña Flor Mendez, but the experience changes her for the better, and insists on doing it as the only way she knows how to repair the damage she's done.

Finally, Maria Liz and Sebastián Monte y Valle live happily ever after with their new families and friends.

Characters

• Susana González - María Liz González Alexander, a determined med student who eventually becomes a doctor. Falls in love with Sebastian Monte y Valle, and marries him in the series finale.
• Víctor Noriega - Sebastián Monte y Valle, an up-and-coming architect. In love with Maria Liz, whom he finally marries in the series finale.
• Eugenia Cauduro - Araceli Montalbán, villain, murdered by Marcelo Carvajal .
• Víctor González - Marcelo Carvajal, villain, presumed mystery killer, dies with Luciano when they stabbed each other.
• Susana Dosamantes - Doña Lucrecia, Sebastian's mother, villain, later good.
• Jorge Martínez - Miguel Augusto Montalbán / Abel Montalbán. Twin brothers. Miguel is betrayed by Luciano Robles del Campo and commits suicide, but is later discovered to have faked it in order to expose Luciano. Abel is Maria Liz's biological father, and the man who raped Coralia.
• Roberto Vander - Germán Garcés, Lucrecia's ex-husband and the father of Sebastian and Kika Mendez.
• Julieta Rosen - Coralía Herrera, Dr. Arnaldo Herrera's wife and the biological mother of both Maria Liz and Ivana Santalucia. Eventually married Nelson Cisneros.
• Geraldine Bazan - Elizabeth Monte y Valle Gonzalez, Maria Liz's daughter by Mariano Luján.
• Alejandro Ávila - Dr. Arnaldo Herrera, Maria Liz's mentor, villain, committed to mental hospital.
• Alejandra Lazcano - Liliana Monte y Valle, Maria liz's daughter by Sebastian Monte y Valle After Araceli's negligence caused her to miscarry, she and Rosalia conspired to kidnap Maria Liz, perform a C-section and steal Liliana from her womb, while convincing Maria Liz that her "drug addiction" caused the death of her child. Eventually Sebastian learns the truth and divorces Araceli, but by then it's too late. Almost dies of chlid abuse at the hands of Marcelo while in Araceli's custody Araceli and Rosalia turn Maria Liz against her.
• Yul Bürkle - Mariano Lujàn (Maria Liz's obsessed husband, villain, goes to insane asylum.
• Alma Delfina - Doña Flor Mendez, Lucrecia's sister and mother of Kika Mendez.
• Claudia Reyes - Yolanda, neighborhood prostitute who later reforms and becomes friends with Maria Liz after the two are falsely imprisoned,villain, later good.
• Raúl Xiquez - Luciano Robles del Campo, villain, dies with Marcelo when they stabbed each other.
• Oswaldo Calvo - Mr. Henry Alexander, Maria Liz's grandfather. Claims to be descended from English aristocracy, but nobody believes him because of his senility. Dies of a heart attack provoked by Lucrecia Monte y Valle.
• Alba Roversi - Rosalía, villain, murdered by Abel Montalban.
• Víctor Camara - Nelson Cisneros, friend of Sebastian. Falls in love with and eventually marries Coralia Herrera.
• Mike Biaggio - Camilo Marin.
• Gabriela Vergara - Ivana Santalucía, villain, freezes to death in a meat locker after being betrayed by Marcelo Carvajal. Also Maria Liz's sister.
• Ismael La Rosa - Juan Carlos Carvajal, Marcelo's brother, and a colleague of Maria Liz's.
• Maritza Bustamante - Federica "Kika" Mendez, Flor's developmentally-challenged daughter. In love with Juan Carlos Carvajal.
• Katie Barberi - Engracia Alexander (La Chacala), villain.
• Altair Jarabo - Vanessa Monte y Valle, Maria Liz's daughter by Sebastian Monte y Valle. After Araceli's negligence caused her to miscarry, she and Lucrecia conspired to kidnap Maria Liz, perform a C-section and steal Vanessa from her womb, while convincing Maria Liz that her "drug addiction" caused the death of her child. Eventually Sebastian learns the truth and divorces Araceli, but by then it's too late. Almost dies of child abuse at the hands of Marcelo while in Araceli's custody. Araceli and Lucrecia turn Maria Liz against her.
• Alen Ibarra - Victor Manuel Pardo.
• Juan Carlos Gutierrez - Oscar Robles, son of Luciano Robles del Campo.
• Carlos Yustis - Nicholas.
• Angie Russian - Cristina.
• Eduardo Ibarrola - Joaquín, Flor Mendez's husband.
• Tobias Yrys- Gilberto.
• Martha Acuña - Rebeca, villain.
• Maite Envil - Clara.
• Mario Liberti - Pedro Leon.
• Frank Carreno - Jaime.
• Gladys Cacerses - Hermosura.
• Antonio M. Suarez - José Carvajal, Marcelo Carvajal's father, presumably murdered by Marcelo.
• Anabel Leal - Clementina carvajal, Marcelo Carvajal's mother, presumably murdered by Marcelo.
• Sabrina Olmedo - Keyla.
• Pablo Cheng - Farolito.
• Julieta Garciaz - Ligia Helena.
• Nicole Gárcia - Vanessita, Vanessa Monte y Valle as a child. Physically abused by Marcelo and Araceli until Sebastian regains custody.
• Ivonne D´liz - Severa del Campo.
• Tania López - Rayo Arul, Villain.
• Juan M. Jauregui - Cobra, villain.
• Camilo Seanz - Puma, villain.

See also

• List of films and television shows set in Miami

References

• (Spanish) Official site on Televisa