

Paulina returns to Colombia, trusting Facundo to find out everything, to make sure that her mother is still alive Paola tries to return to her role and, since the two weeks are over, asks for Paulina to give up the life she has grown to love. Paola is unimpressed with the total usurpation of her life by the twin she hates, and tries to kill her again, using a friend of Gonzalo’s, Manuel, who has professed he would kill for her Facundo is almost hit in the attempt, and begins working directly with Paulina to find the new attacker. Meanwhile, Paulina takes to her new role, finding her new public standing the perfect opportunity to engage in social activism. Paola has already run away with Gonzalo to Bora Bora she is still not satisfied and kills him there, returning to Mexico City to cover her tracks. The President himself also hires a private detective, the former agent Facundo Nava, to investigate. However, not only does she live, but the National Intelligence Center opens an investigation into the shooting, thinking that the President was the real target. Paulina becomes the “usurpadora”, accepting the role and moving into Los Pinos, the presidential palace.ĭuring the Independence celebrations, Paulina is shot. She is mysteriously offered large donations from a Mexican benefactor, traveling there and being kidnapped by Paola, who blackmails Paulina into assuming her identity for two weeks under threat of murdering Olga. Paulina is based in the capital of Colombia, Bogotá, running an orphanage and tending to her aging mother, Olga.

With her identity (and the twin she despises) dead, Paola could run away with her lover Gonzalo. Paola plots to pull a Prince and the Pauper switch with her newfound twin, Paulina Doria, to stand in as First Lady on Independence Day, and then kill her. At the outset of the show, she discovers that she is adopted and has a twin sister though she resents the twin she believes made their mother disown her, Paola sees an opportunity to escape her life and seeks her out.

Paola Miranda, the First Lady of Mexico, is in an unhappy marriage to Carlos, the President.
