La Viuda de Blanco (double meaning: Blanco's Widow and The Widow in
White) is a 1996 Colombian telenovela hit which starred Osvaldo Ríos,
María Helena Doehring, Jorge Enrique Abello, and Yolandita Monge. Its
remake, titled the same, premiered on July 24, 2006 on Telemundo,
replacing La Tormenta. Both versions (the remake including mostly
Mexican actors) were produced by Telemundo Studios Miami. The 1996
version was broadcast between 1996 and 2000 in Colombia, Venezuela,
Armenia, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Cuba, Spain, Dominican Republic,
Poland, Indonesia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Macedonia, Ukraine, Philippines, Georgia, and Azerbaijan.A mysterious
woman (Amador Blanco's wife) arrives in the town of Trinidad looking
for her past. After years of imprisonment for a crime she did not
commit, the beautiful widow Alicia Guardiola returns to claim her twin
boys, who are being raised by their grandmother, the feared and
respected Perfecta Albarracin. Perfecta has no intention of giving up
her grandchildren without a fight, and enlists her son, the handsome
Diego Blanco, to help her. On opposite sides of a battle to claim two
precocious boys who share dreams and magical powers, Alicia and Diego
find themselves falling in love, without even suspecting the dark
consequences a relationship between them will bring.The main conflict
is Alicia's desire to get custody of her twins back. Since Alicia was
put in prison for murdering her husband Amador, son of Perfecta,
Perfecta got custody of Alicia's children. The story starts with
Alicia just having been declared innocent of murder and released from
prison. But while that is the main conflict, another conflict exists
which the audience does not pay much attention to, namely how Perfecta
is alienating her children by her drive to dominate them with an
unforgiving spirit if they appear in her eyes to have done wrong or
offended her. A crisis comes in this conflict as Perfecta realizes her
error and speeds in a car to try to reach her daughter Haydee, who is
leaving the country. But just before Perfecta's car catches up with
Haydee's car, Haydee dies in a car crash. Eventually the audience
learns that actually it is Perfecta who is the real viuda de Blanco,
not Alicia! For Alicia had never been married to Perfecta's son, a
scoundrel who tricked Alicia with a fake marriage using a fake priest.
Moreover, we learn that Amador never died; that too was a fake
death.The story embodies a lot of comedy and repetition. The audience
hears what about what happened through minor characters or reported to
others over the phone. The comedy comes to a screeching halt with the
tragic death of Haydee. The moral of the story is to treat your
children well before death makes that impossible. La viuda de Blanco Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter