Cartola

CARTOLA

Rio de Janeiro (Brasil), 1908 – 1980

By Marcelo Silva Souza

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(Português) Carvalho, Flávio de

Amparo da Barra Mansa, 1899 - Valinhos (Brazil), 1973 By Francisco Alambert Architect, engineer, painter, sculptor, playwright, set designer, writer, decorator, and performer (before this concept was coined), Flávio Resende de Carvalho moved with his family to São Paulo in 1900. In 1908, he studied at the American School of…

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(Español) Cartola

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 1908 - 1980 By Marcelo Silva Souza   Life in the Mangueira hill in the city of Rio de Janeiro was the primary source of inspiration for the songs that made Angenor Oliveira, known as Cartola, one of the greatest composers and performers of Brazilian music.…

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(Português) Carrasquel, Alfonso

Caracas (Venezuela), 1928 - 2005 By Pablo Alabarces Alfonso “Chico” Carrasquel was such a talented baseball player and had such a powerful arm that at the age of eleven, he played in a league reserved for athletes sixteen years old. In one season, he played for three teams. At fifteen,…

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Carpentier, Alejo

Havana (Cuba), 1904 - Paris (France), 1980 By Flávio Aguiar The literary success of his works was echoed in essays that founded concepts for understanding Latin American art. He formulated the theoretical foundations of "Marvellous Realism," which he adopted in many of his texts, where he asserted nationalist, revolutionary, and…

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(Português) Cardoso, Fernando Henrique

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 1931 By Emir Sader Fernando Henrique Cardoso was born in Rio de Janeiro and is the son of an army general who had joined the Communist Party. At the age of eight, he moved to São Paulo, where he established himself. He studied Social Sciences at…

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(Português) Cárdenas Solórzano, Cuauhtémoc

Mexico City (Mexico), 1934 By Fernando Antonio da Costa Vieira Son of the influential Mexican politician Lázaro Cárdenas del Río (1895-1970), who governed the country from 1934 to 1940, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas began his political career in the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), presenting himself as a continuator of his father's legacy…

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(Português) Cardenal, Ernesto

Granada (Nicaragua), 1925 By Flávio Aguiar Ordained as a priest in 1965, Ernesto Cardenal Martínez developed his religious career alongside his literary and political endeavors, which gave his poetic production a blend of prophetic tone, biblical forms full of lyricism, and commitment to the Sandinista Revolution. In 1952, he founded…

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