Mexico City (Mexico), 1911 - 1993 Afrânio Mendes Catani Mario Moreno Reyes is an unknown name. However, his stage name, Cantinflas, gave him international recognition as the most popular Mexican comedian. His long film career, which began in 1937, allowed him to work exclusively with a director (Miguel M. Delgado),…
Rio de Janeiro, 1918 - São Paulo (Brazil), 2017 By Flávio Aguiar Antonio Candido de Mello e Souza graduated in social sciences from the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences, and Letters at the University of São Paulo (USP), where he worked until 1958. He engaged in literary criticism since his formative…
São Paulo (Brazil), 1929 - 2003 By Flávio Aguiar A controversial poet and essayist, he deepened the writing techniques of the modernists of 1922, particularly those of Oswald de Andrade. He developed syntactical innovations anticipated in the poetry of Mário Faustino and rejected the confessional sentimentalism produced by the previous…
Buenos Aires (Argentina), 1959 By Afrânio Mendes Cattani Actor, screenwriter, and film director. Although he is Argentine, Campanella developed much of his career in the United States. There, he directed episodes of well-known series such as Law & Order (1999), House (2004), and 30 Rock (2006). He also directed and…
Fortaleza, 1909 - Recife (Brazil), 1999 By Daniela Jinkings A priest and political activist, Brazilian Dom Hélder Câmara became known internationally as the "red bishop." During the 1930s, he even sympathized with Italian fascism and the Ação Integralista, a Brazilian national-fascist organization led by Plínio Salgado. He founded the National…
Niterói, 1917 - Rio de Janeiro (Brasil), 1997 By Flávio Aguiar He began his journalism career at the age of seventeen, an activity that yielded notable reports, including those collected in the volume Vietnã do Norte (1977). Concerned with profound social distortions, he declared in the 1960s that "an intellectual…
Morelia (Mexico), 1962 By Carlos Serrano Ferreira Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa was born on August 18, 1962, in Morelia, in the Mexican state of Michoacán. He is a lawyer and former president of Mexico (2006-2012). He graduated in law from the Escuela Libre de Derecho and later obtained a…
San Felipe, 1916 - Caracas (Venezuela), 2009 By Margarita López Maya Founder and leading figure of the Christian Social Party (COPEI), an academic, and twice President of the Republic, Rafael Caldera belonged to a slightly younger generation than that of 1928, which included Rómulo Betancourt. Educated by Jesuits, he studied…
Gibara (Cuba), 1929 - London (England), 2005 By Flávio Aguiar The mastery and boldness with which he handles language, crafting text through a fusion of meanings and significants, rhythms and sounds, make this Cuban a challenger of traditional rhetoric. From his first work, a collection of stories published in 1960,…
Pointe Michel (Dominica), 1919 - Fort-de-France (Martinique), 2005 By Rafael Affonso de Miranda Alonso Also known as “Mamo,” Mary Eugenia Charles was the Prime Minister of Dominica from 1980 to 1995. The granddaughter of slaves, she was the daughter of John Baptiste and Josephine Delauney. Her father became a prosperous…
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