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…
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 1946 By Luiz Felipe Alves de Miranda Júlio Eduardo Bressane de Azevedo is regarded as an experimental filmmaker. His debut feature film, Cara a cara (1968), was a poetic film close to the ideals of Cinema Novo. He made two landmark works that inaugurated the concept…
Medellín (Colombia), 1932 By Francisco Alambert Fernando Botero, the most well-known Colombian painter of the 20th century, is known for his distinctive representation of obese or rounded human figures, often incorporating ironic, parodic, and nostalgic references to art history and social and political life. He is regarded by many as…
La Vega, 1909 - Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), 2001 By Emir Sader Essayist and political leader of the Dominican Republic, he was elected president of the country in 1962 as the candidate of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) following the end of Trujillo’s dictatorship. He implemented a reformist program but…
Concórdia (Brazil), 1938 By Carlos Eduardo Martins Leonardo Boff, author of approximately sixty books and a former Franciscan, studied philosophy and theology, obtaining a doctorate in these areas from the University of Munich (Germany) in 1970. As one of the founders of Liberation Theology, he published several key works that…
Panama City (Panama), 1948 By Latin American Team Rubén Blades, a singer, songwriter, actor, and politician, was instrumental in bringing the innovations of the Cuban Nueva Trova to the danceable salsa rhythm, renewing the genre with social and political themes. The son of a Cuban singer and a musician from…
Aruba (Netherlands Antilles), 1944 - St. George (Grenada), 1983 By Carlos Eduardo Martins Maurice Bishop, son of Rupert and Alimenta Bishop, was the main leader of Grenada's socialist experiment and was ultimately executed during the far-left coup led by Bernard Coard, which provided the pretext for the U.S. invasion of…
Santa Fé (Argentina), 1925 By Afrânio Mendes Catani An important figure in the new Latin American cinema, he was a founder of film schools, including the pioneering one at the Universidad del Litoral in Santa Fé, his hometown, and the one in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. A documentary…
Tacuarembó, 1920 - Montevideo (Uruguay), 2009 By Flávio Aguiar In 1956, he sparked controversy with Poemas de la oficina for contrasting the academic lyricism of his contemporaries, and in 1959, with the short stories collected in Montevideanos, for presenting a conception of urban prose. Paradigmatic, these volumes announce, as the…
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 1955 By Luiz Felipe Alves de Miranda A member of a family linked to cinema: his parents, Lucy and Luiz Carlos Barreto, are producers, and his brother Fábio is a director. He adapted several literary works, starting with the small production Tati, a garota (1973), based…
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