Francisco
Mauricio
Manuel
General Contreras
Arcadio
Quepis
The narrator (as José 'Pancho' Clisante)
Cristina, Manuel's wife
Celia, Francisco's wife
Loly, Mauricio's wife
The bus driver (as Kenny Grullón)
Passenger 1
Passenger 2
Boca
Blanco, the leftist prisoner
Susana, the journalist (as Gianna Mella)
The Haitian ambassador
Euclídes, the drug dealer
The barber
Contrera's wife
Bico, the cross-eyed soldier
Yuberty, a maid
Cara de Caballo
The traveling merchant
Libio, the Communist
Gengibrero, the bomb thrower
The truck driver
The Chinese migrant
Facito Ortiz, a peasant
Zeneida, the peasant's daughter (as Ruth Ocumáres)
Papo, the peasant's son (as Iliá Aponte)
The preacher (as Nicolás Díaz Maigaro)
Evangelist 1
Evangelist 2
The Mayor General
China, the madam (as Fefita la Grande)
La Montaña de Puerto Plata (as Fiume Michel Gómez)
The plantation foreman
The Haitian worker
Prostitute 1
Prostitute 2
Mauricio's neighbor
Hija 1987
Radio announcer (voice)