Abrázame muy fuerte (Embrace Me) is a Mexican telenovela that aired from July 2000 to February 2001, under the production of Salvador MejÃÂa Alejandre.
It stars Victoria Ruffo, Fernando Colunga, Aracely Arámbula, César ÃÂvora, Nailea Norvind and Osvaldo RÃÂos.
Cristina (Victoria Ruffo) is a sweet and tender young girl, loved by everyone in "El Platanal", a beautiful estate owned by Don Severiano ÃÂlvarez (JoaquÃÂn Cordero), her father, a tough country man with a rigid character. Diego Hernández (Osvaldo RÃÂos), a strong young man who has fallen in love with Cristina, works as a foreman in this place. Given the love that Cristina also feels for Diego, she gives herself to him. Cristina confesses to her father that she is pregnant and that she loves Diego.
Severiano orders that Cristina and Raquela (Rossana San Juan), the maid, go to the capital for his daughter to have the child there. Due to the manipulations of Federico Rivero (César ÃÂvora), little MarÃÂa del Carmen returns to the estate as Raquela's daughter. Cristina, in order to be close to her daughter, is forced to marry Federico, a ruthless and ambitious man. From now on, before everyone's eyes, she will be the godmother of MarÃÂa del Carmen. Federico causes an accident as a result of which Cristina loses her sight; thus, her fortune passes into his hands.
Federico is happy with the arrival of his nephew, Carlos Manuel (Fernando Colunga), a handsome young man who has finished his medical studies abroad. Carlos Manuel falls in love with Déborah Falcón (Nailea Norvind), without knowing that she is the lover of his uncle. When Federico finds out about this relationship, he opposes it and looks for a way to separate Déborah from his nephew.
Simultaneously, the now adolescent MarÃÂa del Carmen (Aracely Arámbula) falls in love with Carlos Manuel from the moment she meets him, provoking the hatred of Déborah who, along with Federico, does everything possible to break up the young couple, managing to drift them apart, but without being able to make the love they feel for each other go out.
Carlos Manuel gets ÃÂngel Luis Robles (Arnaldo André), his teacher and friend who is a specialist in ophthalmology, to analyze Cristina's case of blindness so that he can help him operate on her. Dr. Robles secretly falls in love with her and has a vested interest in her regaining her sight. Federico, eager to possess MarÃÂa del Carmen at any cost, tries to sexually abuse the young woman, but Cristina prevents it.
This awesome story, in which the purest feelings of the human being are shown, leads us to a series of surprises and emotions giving way to true love; the love that can only be felt when saying Embrace Me.
In Indonesia, the telenovela was dubbed into Indonesian and broadcast by SCTV as "Carmenita" from late 2000 to early 2001 every Monday to Friday at 5 p.m.
In Lebanon, it was dubbed into Arabic (Levantine Arabic) and broadcast by LBCI as "ãèÃÂààùÃÂ" (AbqàMaÿë, meaning "Stay with Me") at 2001.
In the Philippines, it was dubbed into Tagalog and broadcast by GMA Network as "Maria del Carmen" from November 17, 2003 to May 20, 2004.
In the United Kingdom, it was dubbed into English and broadcast by Channel 4 as "Hold Me Tight" from late 2001 to early 2002, also changes few character names e.g. Carmen became Carmel, Cristina became Christina, Federico became Frederick, Raquela became Rachel, José MarÃÂa became Joseph Mary.
In Australia, it has the same broadcasting like in United Kingdom, but broadcast by Seven Network at 2002.
In 2015, Angelli Nesma Medina produced Que te perdone Dios for Televisa. Zuria Vega, Mark Tacher, Sergio Goyri and Rebecca Jones were cast as main protagonists.