Caro

* Season 2
* Season 3

**Carolina "Caro" Berti**, portrayed by Bárbara Estrabou, is a main character and teenager antagonist of the First Story (season 2, and 3) of *Chiquititas*.

## History

#### Backstory

Carolina has many trauma from a difficult life experience. She was first abandoned as a baby by her birth parents, then adopted at the age of 2 by the Lopes family and returned to the system at the age of 4. At this time, she was already an extremely traumatized and problematic child who acted out and had no ways and resources of hiding her pain and anger under the dissimulated facade of a good girl that she developed later in life. She was later adopted by the Berti family at the age of 5 and abandoned again at the age of 9. This triple abandonment created in her a deep trauma and resentment that she's a bad person that is undeserving of love, and she wears to herself this mask of a bad person as a defensive coping mechanism, converting herself and her attitudes to that of a bad person.

#### Season 2

In *S2\_E162*, Carolina is ordered by a judge to be transferred to Rincón de Luz in the second season the show. Jorge Clementi brings the news to Belén regarding her wild behavior, saying that she has done 'tremendous' things, to what Belén responds saying that this was the same concern he had when Tamara was transferred, but that with time Tamara has adapted well and that Caro should be given a chance, to what he says that her history is alarming and they should keep their eyes open. Belén tells the kids that she has lived in many places because of her difficult character, being transferred from facility to facility and foster home to foster home. When she arrives at the Rincón, she pretends to be nice and lovely as a mean of survival. Corcho makes a joke that she's a witch because of her surname, to which she responds later by cutting his jacket as revenge. She later asks Maru to borrow her teddy bear, and Maru denies due to being a little girl who's emotionally attached to it. Caro also takes revenge by leaving Maru alone inside a train and then lying about it. She poison's the dog Gau, a gift from Javier to Mili and the orphans, after the dog eats her shoes.

#### Aftermath

Caro goes back to

tries to steal Mili's brooch and she is caught by the kids. She is sent to a boarding school in Europe, where she is left alone and angry, never repenting for her actions.

## Personality and Traits

Caro is a very intelligent, perspicacious pathological liar, who is envious, resentful and sly.

## Relationships

#### Matilde

Matilde tells Caro that she may fool other people but not, telling that she may do whatever she wants as longs as she stays out of her way, and proposes a partnership. The next day she advices Caro to play nice, specially to Sol, as away to get Belén to like her and take her side.

#### Sol

Caro gets closes to Sol and treats her very nicely as a way to manipulate her. For instance, she makes Sol jealous of Nadia.

## Songs

### Season 3

* Bruxas Feas:

## Music Videos

Caro is a part of 4 music videos:

Chufachon; Brujas Feas; La Edad del Pavo; ¿Que hiciste qué?

## Quotes

* "Estoy disposta a todo" (Caro to Matilde)
* "This time you went too far." (Matilde to Caro)
* "You didn't win Carolina, because I'm not your enemy. You are your own enemy." (Mili to Carolina)

## Reception and Commentaries

* Different from the first Brazilian version, where Marian is an angry child who later repents for her actions, Caro is a little psychopath who kills a dog and does many criminal things. This is a little heavy narrative for a child that goes against the message of the series, that focus on love and hope. She is treated mora as a villain, instead of one of the Chufos.
* Bárbara Estrabou is loved by the fans for her excellent portrayal of villain.
* It's sad that she has all these adults, such as Carmen and Matilde, trying to take advantage of her.
* It would be nice if the character remained in Season 4 so that she could repent and heal from her traumas, and find a light to both forgive herself, others who should have cared for her and instead hurt her badly, and also be forgiven.