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Loreto Valenzuela
Loreto Cristina Valenzuela Valdivia (born 3 July 1954) is a Chilean actress and director, recognized for her extensive career in theater and television. Valenzuela achieved great popularity in the play ' (1979), in the enigmatic and censored ' (1986), in the drama ' (1987), and for her treacherous antagonistic role in ' (2016). Biography Loreto Valenzuela studied business engineering at the University of Chile's from 1972 to 1973 due to political considerations. After the 1973 military coup, a continuous persecution against leftist students began. The school was dissolved the same year, so she was forced to abandon her studies. Subsequently, she took secretarial and acting courses at the School of Communication Arts (EAC) of the Pontifical Catholic University, graduating in 1979. In 1979 she starred with Luz Jiménez, Myriam Palacios, and Soledad Alonso in the play ''Tres Marías y una Rosa'' by David Benavente and directed by Raúl Osorio. Its success led her to tour Latin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Antonio, Chile
San Antonio is a Chilean port city, commune and the capital of the San Antonio Province in the Valparaíso Region. In the twenty-first century San Antonio has surpassed Valparaíso in freight volume handled, becoming the main freight port of Chile. This has led to the challenging of Valparaíso's traditional moniker ''Puerto Principal'' ("Main Port" of Chile). San Antonio is the hub of the fishing area that spans the Chilean coast from Rocas de Santo Domingo to Cartagena. Geography The city lies on hills and coastal dunes, immediately north of the mouth of the Maipo River and is crossed in two sections by estuaries, of Arévalo to the north and of El Sauce in the section of Llolleo. The city is located at 33°35′S and 71°37′W. It is bordered on the north by the commune of Cartagena; on the east, by the commune of Melipilla and the Maipo River; on the south, by the same river and by the communes of Santo Domingo and San Pedro; and on the west, by the Pacific Ocean (h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Televisión Nacional De Chile
Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) is a Chilean public service broadcaster. It was founded by order of President Eduardo Frei Montalva and it was launched nationwide on 18 September 1969. Since then, the company has been reorganized on several occasions and its operations areas have increased over the years, becoming one of the leading television broadcaster in Chile and South America. The law 17 377 of 1970 established that TVN must be a public, autonomous, pluralistic and representative public service. TVN's public mission determines the obligation to promote the national cultural identity, the values of democracy, human rights, care for the environment and respect for diversity. Furthermore, Televisión Nacional governs the programming of its services according to criteria established by the National Television Council (CNTV). Televisión Nacional has been a pioneer in introducing technological advances in Chile. It was the first television network to have national coverage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brujas (TV Series)
''Brujas'' (lit: ''Witches'') also known as Las profesionales, is a Chilean television soap opera created by Néstor Castagno and Daniella Castagno, that aired on Canal 13 from March 7, to August 23, 2005, starring Carolina Arregui, Jorge Zabaleta and María Elena Swett. Cast * Carolina Arregui as ''Beatriz González''. * Jorge Zabaleta as ''Dante Ruíz Salazar / Soler Morales / Fontaine Morales''. * María Elena Swett as ''Cassandra García''. * Juan Falcón as ''Jason Estévez''. * Íngrid Cruz as ''Gretel "Estrudel" Schmidt Kaussel''. * Elvira López as ''Candelaria Pérez "Candela"''. * Antonella Ríos as ''Mariana Carvajal''. * Lorena Capetillo as ''Noelia Fuentes''. * Silvia Santelices as ''Rebeca Márquez''. * Leonardo Perucci as ''Humberto Fontaine''. * Loreto Valenzuela as ''Mercedes Salazar''. * Luis Gnecco as ''Leopoldo Quevedo''. * Solange Lackington as ''Marta "Martuca" Salinas''. * Alejandro Trejo as ''Gregorio "Goyo" Sánchez''. * Viviana Rodríguez as ''Josef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canal 13 (Chile)
Canal 13 is a Chilean free-to-air television channel. It was launched on 21 August 1959, on VHF channel 2 of Santiago, in a broadcast led by a group of engineers from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Subsequently, the TV station moved its frequency to VHF channel 13, which gave rise to its current name. In its beginnings, one of its most important milestones was the broadcast of the 1962 FIFA World Cup, held in Chile. Owned by the Andrónico Luksic Craig, Luksic Group, Canal 13 is the second oldest television station in Chile. It was named ''Corporación de Televisión de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile'' (Television Corporation of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile) until 2010. However, the station is known in Chile as El 13 (the thirteenth) since its inception. Its central studios are located in the ''Eleodoro Rodríguez Matte Television Centre'', which houses the channel's production and broadcast facilities since the 1980s. The complex is l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amores De Mercado (Chilean TV Series)
''Amores de mercado'' (lit: ''Market Lovers'') is a Chilean television series created by Fernando Aragón and Arnaldo Madrid, that aired on TVN and TV Chile from August 6, to December 28, 2001, starring Álvaro Rudolphy, Ángela Contreras, Luciano Cruz-Coke, and Alejandra Fosalba. Plot Pedro Solis (Álvaro Rudolphy) is a young lower-middle class waiter, known as Pelluco by his family and friends. One day he finds a man, Rodolfo Ruttenmeyer, identical to him. Without finding an explanation for the strange fact, Pelluco assumes the identity of Rodolfo, as he had an accident and lost his memory. Rodolfo is received and cared by Pelluco's family, who believes he is actually Pelluco. Pelluco, in the other hand, tries to find the answer to what he saw that day, while living as a businessman. He falls in love with Fernanda (Ángela Contreras), the lover of his stepbrother Ignacio (Luciano Cruz-Coke). Fernanda cheats on Pelluco with his stepbrother, but when she discovers the new persona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María Izquierdo (actress)
Ana María Izquierdo Huneeus (born 15 December 1960) is a Chilean actress. She appeared in more than fifty films since 1978. Biography Her father, Luis Izquierdo, was a doctor who was dedicated to scientific research, and her mother, Teresa Huneeus Cox, was a psychologist. She is the granddaughter of the writer Virginia Cox Balmaceda, and niece of the writer Pablo Huneeus Cox. She studied at the La Girouette School in Las Condes and later at the Theater School of the University of Chile. She graduated in 1980 and made her professional debut the following year in the play Berlin 1930, under the direction of Eugenio Guzmán. She then participated in Alejandro Sieveking's La Remienda, and in Alicia or the Wonders She Saw in the Country, a collective creation directed by Andrés Pérez. In 1983, she moved to the United States where she stayed until the following year working at the American Repertory Theater The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) is a professional not-for-prof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raquel Argandoña
Raquel Eliana Argandoña de la Fuente (December 5, 1957 in Santiago de Chile) is a Chilean former beauty pageant contestant, TV presenter, actress mayor of Pelarco. She is best known for her role as the La Quintrala in the 1986 TV mini-series of the same name. Raquel Argandoña was also the 1975 Miss Universo Chile. Raquel is the mother of the actress-singer Raquel Calderón. Electoral Resume Municipal Elections 1996 Pelarco's mayoralty Municipal Elections 2000 Pelarco's mayoralty Municipal Elections 2004 San Joaquín's mayoralty Parliamentary Elections 2005 Deputy for the Distrito 25 (La Granja, Macul and San Joaquín), Región Metropolitana Votación Candidatos por Distrito 25, Diputados 2005 References Exte ...
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Augusto Pinochet
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (, , , ; 25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean general who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, first as the leader of the Military Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1981, being declared President of the Republic by the junta in 1974 and becoming the ''de facto'' dictator of Chile, and from 1981 to 1990 as ''de jure'' President after a new Constitution, which confirmed him in the office, was approved by a referendum in 1980. His rule remains the longest of any Chilean leader in history. Huneeus, Carlos (2007)Las consecuencias del caso Pinochet en la política chilena Centro de. Estudios de la Realidad Contemporánea. Augusto Pinochet rose through the ranks of the Chilean Army to become General Chief of Staff in early 1972 before being appointed its Commander-in-Chief on 23 August 1973 by President Salvador Allende. On 11 September 1973, Pinochet seized power in Chile in a coup d'état, with the support of the US, Winn, Peter. 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Military Dictatorship Of Chile (1973–90)
A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. It is typically authorized and maintained by a sovereign state, with its members identifiable by their distinct military uniform. It may consist of one or more military branches such as an army, navy, air force, space force, marines, or coast guard. The main task of the military is usually defined as defence of the state and its interests against external armed threats. In broad usage, the terms ''armed forces'' and ''military'' are often treated as synonymous, although in technical usage a distinction is sometimes made in which a country's armed forces may include both its military and other paramilitary forces. There are various forms of irregular military forces, not belonging to a recognized state; though they share many attributes with regular military forces, they are less often referred to as simply ''military''. A nation's military may f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazism
Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Nazi Germany. During Hitler's rise to power in 1930s Europe, it was frequently referred to as Hitlerism (german: Hitlerfaschismus). The later related term "neo-Nazism" is applied to other far-right groups with similar ideas which formed after the Second World War. Nazism is a form of fascism, with disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system. It incorporates a dictatorship, fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, scientific racism, and the use of eugenics into its creed. Its extreme nationalism originated in pan-Germanism and the ethno-nationalist '' Völkisch'' movement which had been a prominent aspect of German nationalism since the late 19th century, and it was strongly influenced by the paramilitary groups that emerged af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Mercurio
''El Mercurio'' (known online as ''El Mercurio On-Line'', ''EMOL'') is a Chilean newspaper with editions in Valparaíso and Santiago. Its Santiago edition is considered the country's newspaper of record and it is considered the oldest daily in the Spanish language currently in circulation. ''El Mercurio'' is owned by El Mercurio S.A.P. (''Sociedad Anónima Periodística'' 'joint stock news company'), which operates a network of 19 regional dailies and 32 radio stations across the country. History The Valparaíso edition of ''El Mercurio'' was founded by Pedro Félix Vicuña ( Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna's father) on September 12, 1827, and was later acquired by Agustín Edwards Ross in 1880. The Santiago edition was founded by Agustín Edwards Mac Clure, son of Edwards Ross, on June 1, 1900. In 1942 Edwards Mac Clure died and his son Agustín Edwards Budge took over as president. When Edwards Budge died in 1956, his son, Agustín Edwards Eastman, took control of the company. Edwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María Elena Gertner
María Elena Gertner (1926 – 25 January 2013) was a Chilean actress, author, and television screenwriter. Biography María Elena Gertner began her literary career with the 1950 poetry collection ''Homenaje al miedo''. In this way, she was classified within the "generation of 1950" – also called the "generation of 1957" – of which her novel ''Islas en la ciudad'' is considered one of the six key works. Among her early creations, the theatrical works ''La mujer que trajo la lluvia'' and ''La rosa perdida'' stood out. In 1964, she won the CRAV Award with her story "El invencible sueño del coronel". She began acting in 1952, when she was a member of the . Later, she participated in the Art Theater of the Ministry of Education (Chile), Ministry of Education and in chamber theaters, exhibiting her previously mentioned theatrical stories as an actress and stage director. She also starred in the 1971 film ' by Helvio Soto. Gertner wrote several telenovelas for Televisión Naciona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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