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El Comandante (TV Series)
''El Comandante'', is a Colombian television series created by Sony Pictures Television. It is based on the life of the late Venezuelan President, Hugo Rafael Chávez Frias. It stars Andrés Parra as the titular character. Plot summary ''El Comandante'' is a story inspired by the life of Hugo Chávez, a man of humble origin who, at only 44 years old and against all odds, became the most powerful and controversial Latin American leader of his time. During his rule he controlled at will the largest oil reserves on the planet, challenged the First World and managed to shake the continent as nobody else. The production narrates the fictional story of a man and a country, inspired by real events, incorporating elements and characters of fiction as his comrades fighting, the spies who wanted to kill him, the women who accompanied him in his career and the members of the opposition, to offer an account of suspense and action, of politics and romance. Cast * Andrés Parra as Hugo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telenovela
A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' (for "television") and ''novela'' (meaning "novel"). Similar drama genres around the world include '' teleserye'' (Philippines), '' téléroman'' (Canada, specifically Quebec), and ''sinetron'' (Indonesia). Commonly described using the American colloquialism Spanish soap opera, many telenovelas share some stylistic and thematic similarities to the soap opera familiar to the English-speaking world. The significant difference is their series run length; telenovelas tell one self-contained story, typically within the span of a year or less whereas soap operas tend to have intertwined storylines told during indefinite, continuing runs. This makes them shorter than most other television series, but still much longer than a miniseries. This planned run results in a faster-paced, more concise style of melodrama compared to a typical soap opera. Episodes of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albi De Abreu
Albi De Abreu (born as Albino de Abreu Do Nascimiento on 31 May 1975) is a Venezuelan theater and television actor. Biography Albi began his television career at the age of 14 when he began appearing in several TV commercials. He got his first acting role in the telenovela '' Sol de Tentación'' in 1996. Thereafter, he portrayed leading roles in many Venezuelan telenovelas and TV Series. Shortly thereafter, Albi had the opportunity to show his acting skills in several features films and plays. Being aware of the importance of being fully trained and prepared, Albi De Abreu put on hold his acting career, and spent two years improving his acting skills at The Sanford Meisner in Los Angeles City. Also he became a fluent English / Portuguese / Spanish speaker. Besides his acting career, Albi De Abreu is being developing his skills as a director, movie writer, and documentary photographer. "Colmillo" (Fang) and "Musica Del Cielo" (Music from the Sky) are the two short films he had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eileen Abad
Eileen Abad (born November 15, 1973 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan actress and model who has acted in several telenovelas and films. Biography Abad studied drama at the Escuela de Artes Escénicas Juana Sujo. Her work in Venezuelan as well as Mexican and Colombian telenovelas has gained her recognition. Some of the most famous productions she took part in included '' Por estas calles'', ''Amores de fin de siglo'', ''Contra viento y marea'', ''Calipso'', ''Niña Mimada'', ''El amor de mi vida'' (TV Azteca TV Azteca, S.A.B. de C.V. is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate owned by Grupo Salinas. It is the second-largest mass media company in Mexico after Televisa. It primarily competes with Televisa as well as some local operators. It owns two nationa ...). Among the awards she has received are Las Palmas de Oro (best performance, ''99 México''), Premio Nacional Casa del Artista as a young actress of the year (1998) and second in La Orden Francisco Fajardo. She has pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wanda D'Isidoro
Wanda Catherine D’Isidoro Arcolín (born October 20, 1977 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a Venezuelan actress. D'Isidoro was born to an American mother and a Sicilian father, who met when her mother was an actress. They married and moved to Venezuela, after she was born. Career Her first appearance on television was in the years 1991/1992 when an advertisement of Malt Caracas a man threw in Benji and she was kissed by him when he almost reached the floor. Her charm and beauty allowed her to then enter Venevision. Started in Venevision, in the "Circo de las Cómplices", where she participated in a competition called "Alice in Wonderland", until she had the opportunity to cheer on "El Club de los Tigritos". Previously, she served as model with Jalymar Salomón in the game show "La Caravana del Dinero". In 2012, she starred as Priscilla in the Nickelodeon series, '' Grachi'', and Verónica Baeza on '' El Rostro de la Venganza''. In 2013, she recorded a production of Telemu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cancer
Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Possible signs and symptoms include a lump, abnormal bleeding, prolonged cough, unexplained weight loss, and a change in bowel movements. While these symptoms may indicate cancer, they can also have other causes. Over 100 types of cancers affect humans. Tobacco use is the cause of about 22% of cancer deaths. Another 10% are due to obesity, poor diet, lack of physical activity or excessive drinking of alcohol. Other factors include certain infections, exposure to ionizing radiation, and environmental pollutants. In the developing world, 15% of cancers are due to infections such as ''Helicobacter pylori'', hepatitis B, hepatitis C, human papillomavirus infection, Epstein–Barr virus and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). These factors act, at least partly, by changing the genes of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venezuelan Spanish
Venezuelan Spanish ( or ) refers to the Spanish spoken in Venezuela. Spanish was introduced in Venezuela by colonists. Most of them were from Galicia, Basque Country, Andalusia, or the Canary Islands. The last has been the most fundamental influence on modern Venezuelan Spanish, and Canarian and Venezuelan accents may even be indistinguishable to other Spanish-speakers. Italian and Portuguese immigrants from the late 19th and the early 20th century have also had an influence; they influenced vocabulary and its accent, given its slight sing-songy intonation, like Rioplatense Spanish. German settlers also left an influence when Venezuela was contracted as a concession by the King of Spain to the German Welser banking family ( Klein-Venedig, 1528–1546). The Spaniards additionally brought African slaves, which is the origin of expressions such as ("excellent"), which comes from Yoruba . Other non-Romance words came from indigenous languages, such as (a type of coffee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twitter
Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and ' retweet' tweets, while unregistered users only have the ability to read public tweets. Users interact with Twitter through browser or mobile frontend software, or programmatically via its APIs. Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 and launched in July of that year. Twitter, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California and has more than 25 offices around the world. , more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet". , Twitter had more than 330 million monthly active users. In practice, the va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabaneta, Barinas
Sabaneta is a town in Venezuela's Barinas state. It is known to be the birthplace of the late President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez and his siblings. Sabaneta is the capital of Alberto Arvelo Torrealba Municipality in Barinas. The town was founded by Juan de Alhama ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, t ... in 1787. The principal industry is sugar production. Populated places in Barinas (state) Populated places established in 1787 1787 establishments in Venezuela {{Venezuela-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venezuelan President
The president of Venezuela ( es, Presidente de Venezuela), officially known as the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, Presidente de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is the head of state and head of government in Venezuela. The president leads the National Executive of the Venezuelan government and is the commander-in-chief of the National Bolivarian Armed Forces. Presidential terms were set at six years with the adoption of the 1999 Constitution of Venezuela, and presidential term limits were removed in 2009. The office of president in Venezuela has existed since the 1811 Venezuelan Declaration of Independence from the Spanish Crown; the first president was Cristóbal Mendoza. From 1821 to 1830, Venezuela was a member state of Gran Colombia, and the Venezuelan executive was absorbed by the Colombian government in Bogotá. When the State of Venezuela became independent from Gran Colombia, the office of the president was restored under José Antoni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady, La Vendedora De Rosas
''Lady, la vendedora de rosas'', is a Colombian telenovela produced by Teleset for Sony Pictures Television and RCN Televisión. The telenovela is based on the life of , in her time as a child and adult. Plot Lady, la vendedora de rosas, is a story based on the real life of Lady Tabares, a woman who has the life of a movie. Lady was raised in one of the poorest and most crime-ridden neighborhoods in Medellin. She grew up sleeping on the streets and begging for a living before she was sent to an orphanage. She eventually left the orphanage after reuniting with her family and in her teens she dedicated herself to selling roses on the streets. By a twist of fate she is chosen to star in the movie ''La vendedora de rosas'', a movie that won many awards in several international festivals turning her into a star. Unfortunately the fame that was easy to get was easy to lose and Lady eventually returned to her old neighborhood to sell roses. The worst then comes when she is sentenced t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Denis
Francisco Denis (born 1961) is a Venezuelan actor and director. Denis runs his own theater company in Venezuela, and has acted in about 20 films there. Selected filmography * DEMONICA (TBA) *Takari de Chivo ( TBA) Also director and writer *Benigno Cruz (TBA) *Short Film DEMONICA (2021) *Operacion Orion (2021) *'' The Liberator'' as Simón Rodríguez (2013) *3 Bellezas (2014) *La Mula Muerta (2012) (Shortfilm) *De repente, la pelicula Selected television * '' Diario de un gigoló'' (2022) * ''The Revenge of Juanas'' (2021) * ''Jack Ryan'' * '' El Comandante'' as Fernando Brizuela (2017) * ''Narcos ''Narcos'' is an American-Colombian crime drama television series created and produced by Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard, and Doug Miro. Set and filmed in Colombia, seasons 1 and 2 are based on the story of Colombian narcoterrorist and drug ...'' as Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela (2017) References External links * Living people Venezuelan male film actors Venezuelan ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
