juanita vasquez () was pilar lopez-fitzgerald's childhood best friend. though both juanita and pilar dreamt of love, juanita being very materialistic wanted wealth, too. as a young woman, juanita became engaged to carlos alejandro vasquez, a member of and the heir to the vasquez drug cartel. pilar worried for her friend marrying into a criminal family, and although juanita was first skeptical about marrying carlos after finding out about his family's criminal backgrounds, juanita slowly did not care about this as she was overwhelmingly obsessed with wanting a very wealthy husband with a big mansion and wanted high quality luxurious items including a luxurious lifestyle and carlos had convinced juanita that he was going to leave the crime family business and was going to become a lawyer, which juanita reassured pilar. juanita and carlos were married and had a son and at least two daughters, while pilar immigrated to the united states, married martin fitzgerald, and had two sons, antonio and luis.