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Corsican Immigration To Venezuela
Corsicans, coming mainly from the regions of Cap Corse and La Castagniccia in the mediterranean island of Corsica, started arriving in the first third of the 19th century and settled mainly in the coastal towns of Carúpano and Rio Caribe. Known locally as Los Corsos, Corsicans played a central role in the development of the cocoa and rum industry in Venezuela. Around the 1950s many Corsican families left Paria and settled in Caracas, and have been active in politics, commerce, medicine and the arts. Historical background The first Corsicans to settle in Venezuela were sailors and missionaries, who moved from the island when was part of the Italian Republic of Genoa, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. During the reign of Napoleon III Corsica suffered a decline in agricultural production (particularly in the wine, olive and chestnut industries) due to unfair trade practices imposed by France. That coupled with a population boom due to the eradication of malaria in coa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corsican People
The Corsicans ( Corsican, Italian and Ligurian: ''Corsi''; French: ''Corses'') are a Romance ethnic group. They are native to Corsica, a Mediterranean island and a territorial collectivity of France. Origin The island was populated since the Mesolithic (''Dame de Bonifacio'') and the Neolithic by people who came from the Italian peninsula, especially the modern regions of Tuscany and Liguria. An important megalithic tradition developed locally since the 4th millennium BC. Reached, like Sardinia, by Polada culture influences in the Early Bronze Age, in the 2nd millennium BC Corsica, the southern part in particular, saw the rise of the Torrean civilization, strongly linked to the Nuragic civilization. The modern Corsicans are named after an ancient people known by the Romans as '' Corsi''. The ''Corsi'', who gave their name to the island, actually originated from the Northeastern part of Nuragic Sardinia (Gallura). According to Ptolemy, the Corsi were formed by a composite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Venezuela 1962
Miss Venezuela 1962 was the ninth edition of Miss Venezuela pageant held at Teatro Paris (now called Teatro La Campiña) in Caracas, Venezuela, on June 27, 1962. The winner of the pageant was Olga Antonetti, Miss Anzoátegui. This was the first year that Miss Venezuela pageant was broadcast on national television by RCTV. Results *''Miss Venezuela 1962'' - Olga Antonetti Olga "Olguita" Antonetti Núñez (February 19, 1945 – December 12, 1968) was a Venezuelan beauty pageant titleholder for 1962, and the official representative of Venezuela to the Miss International 1962 pageant held in Long Beach, Californi ... ( Miss Anzoátegui) *''1st runner-up'' - Betsabé Franco ( Miss Aragua) to Miss World 1962 *''2nd runner-up'' - Virginia Bailey ( Miss Nueva Esparta) to Miss Universe 1962 *''3rd runner-up'' - Luisa Rondón-Márquez ( Miss Distrito Federal) to Miss United Nations 1963 *''4th runner-up'' - Isabel Osorio ( Miss Táchira) Delegates * Miss Anzoátegui - Olga A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raúl Leoni
Raúl Leoni Otero (26 April 1905 – 5 July 1972) was the president of Venezuela from 1964 until 1969. He was a member of the Generation of 1928 and a charter member of the Acción Democrática party, and the first Labor minister of Venezuela (during El Trienio Adeco, 1945–48). Background Leoni was born in El Manteco, Bolívar State, son of Clement Leoni Scribani, born in Corsica. He graduated at the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas as a lawyer. He was a member of the Generation of 1928, and the first Labor minister of Venezuela (during El Trienio Adeco, 1945–48). Presidency Leoni took control of the presidency on 13 March 1964, succeeding Rómulo Betancourt; both were members of the Acción Democrática. One of the pillars of a political consolidation in Venezuela, the ''Pacto de Punto Fijo'', was underestimated by Leoni, since in his opinion it reduced the "coherence and organization of the regime". Strictly, the pact mandated that the composition of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Of Asturias Award
The Princess of Asturias Awards ( es, Premios Princesa de Asturias, links=no, ast, Premios Princesa d'Asturies, links=no), formerly the Prince of Asturias Awards from 1981 to 2014 ( es, Premios Príncipe de Asturias, links=no), are a series of annual prizes awarded in Spain by the Princess of Asturias Foundation (previously the Prince of Asturias Foundation) to individuals, entities or organizations from around the world who make notable achievements in the sciences, humanities, and public affairs. The awards are presented every October in a solemn ceremony at the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo, the capital of the Principality of Asturias, and are handed out by the Princess of Asturias. Each recipient present at the ceremony receives a diploma, a sculpture expressly created for the awards by Spanish sculptor Joan Miró and a pin with the emblem of the Foundation. There is also a monetary prize of 50,000 euros for each category; this amount is shared if the category has more that on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arturo Uslar Pietri
Arturo Uslar Pietri (16 May 1906 in Caracas – 26 February 2001) was a Venezuelan intellectual, historian, writer, television producer, and politician. Life Born on 16 May 1906 in Caracas, Venezuela, his parents were generalSantos Himiob (1997) in Las Nubes (chronological references), 1st Edition. Monte Ávila Editores Latinoamericana. Arturo Uslar Santamaría and Helena Pietri de Uslar. The last name Uslar is of German origin and can be traced back to Johann von Uslar, who fought for the rebel cause during Venezuela's independence wars. As a young boy and then teenager he lived in various cities in the comparatively urbanised central northern valleys of the country. He moved back to Caracas in 1924 to read political sciences at the Central University of Venezuela, where he graduated Doctor of Political Sciences in 1929. That same year he obtained a law degree. Uslar led a remarkably fruitful life, influential in Venezuelan politics, historical analysis and literature, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Franceschi
Alberto Franceschi González (born 20 May 1947) is a Venezuelan politician and businessman. Since December 2013, Franceschi has been living in exile in the United States after the Nicolás Maduro government threatened to arrest him. Initially a communist, he became an opponent of Chavismo and a supporter of right-wing politics. Biography He was born in Miranda, Carabobo state on 20 May 1947, in a family of Corsican origin. Political career He was leader of the Revolutionary Left Movement at the University of Carabobo. Founding member of the Marxist Socialist Workers Party (PST), of which he was secretary general in the 1980s. He accompanied Argentine Nahuel Moreno in the foundation and in the top direction for 8 years of the International Workers League – Fourth International (LIT-CI), which fought intransigently all Stalinist governments around the world, coming to act clandestinely sustained in the countries under communist autocracies after the Iron Curtain and in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aimée Battistini
Aimée Battistini (1916-8 July 1989) was a Venezuelan painter. Biography Battistini was born to a Corsican family, in the state of Bolívar, Venezuela. From a young age she reproduced classics of oil painting. Upon moving to Paris in 1928 with her family, Battistini began four years of studies at the Académie Julian. She worked in her own studio between 1936 and 1939, a period that was marked by an impressionist trend, although during this time she also dabbled in the Cubist style. In 1940, Battistini returned to Venezuela and her friendship with the painter and sculptor Alejandro Otero began, whom he would help her upon their arrival in Paris with Jesús Rafael Soto years later. In 1941, she lived in New York City and Mexico City, until 1945 when she returned to France after the end of the Second World War. Her house in Paris was the meeting place for the group called Los disidentes, made up of Venezuelan artists who were supporters of the abstractionist style and were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernesto Branger Orzattoni
Ernesto, form of the name Ernest in several Romance languages, may refer to: * ''Ernesto'' (novel) (1953), an unfinished autobiographical novel by Umberto Saba, published posthumously in 1975 ** ''Ernesto'' (film), a 1979 Italian drama loosely based on the novel * Hurricane Ernesto (other), several hurricanes or People *Ernesto Abella, Filipino businessman, politician, and writer *Ernesto Aguero (born 1969), Cuban weightlifter *Ernesto Alonso (1917–2007), Mexican actor, director, cinematographer, and producer *Ernesto Amantegui Phumipha (born 1990), Thai footballer *Ernesto Basile (1857–1932), Italian architect *Ernesto Cesàro (1859–1906), Italian mathematician *Ernesto De Curtis (1875–1937), Italian composer *Ernesto Farías (born 1980), Argentine footballer *Ernesto Figueiredo (born 1937), also known as "Ernesto", Portuguese footballer * Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (1928–1967), also known as "El Che" or "Che Guevara" *Ernesto Geisel (1908-1996), Brazilian pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
