Bandeira, Manuel
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29/10/2022
Bedregal, Yolanda
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29/10/2022
Belli, Gioconda
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29/10/2022
Boisier, Sergio
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25/02/2022
(Português) Bachelet, Michelle
Santiago (Chile), 1951 By Latinoamerican Team Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria was the first woman to serve as President of Chile and the second woman to lead a major Latin American country, following María Estela Martínez de Perón in Argentina. She was first elected in 2006, winning the runoff against businessman…
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22/01/2022
(Português) Baca, Suzana
Lima (Peru), 1944 By Fernanda Gdynia Morotti Susana Esther Baca de la Colina is an Afro-Peruvian historian, musician, educator, singer, and composer. Born in Chorrillos, a small fishing village in the district of Lima, she grew up immersed in music and the arts related to Afro-Peruvian roots. She served as…
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22/01/2022
(Português) Babenco, Hector
Mar del Plata (Argentina), 1946 - São Paulo (Brazil), 2016 By Afrânio Mendes Catani Filmmaker Héctor Eduardo Babenco lived in Brazil and Europe during his youth. In the 1960s, he worked on the production of around forty films in Spain. After directing institutional short films in Brazil, he made his…
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22/01/2022
(Português) Burle Marx, Roberto
São Paulo, 1909 - Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 1994 By the Latin American Team An internationally recognized architect and landscape designer, Roberto Burle Marx spent a period in Germany, where he came into contact with European artistic avant-gardes and studied at the National School of Fine Arts. While combining his…
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22/01/2022
(Português) Bueno, Maria Esther
São Paulo (Brazil), 1939 By Pablo Alabarces The greatest Latin American tennis player in history, Maria Esther Bueno from São Paulo started playing tennis at six years old and became the Brazilian champion at fifteen. At seventeen, she participated in her first international competition, the Pan American Games. In 1957,…
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22/01/2022
(Português) Buarque de Holanda, Chico
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 1944 By Alberto Ikeda Composer, lyricist, and writer, Francisco Buarque de Holanda became notable in the 1960s and 1970s, mainly for his politically charged musical production, which contested the authoritarianism of the military dictatorship that Brazil experienced from 1964 to 1985. He was one of the…
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22/01/2022
