46 Notable alumni of
Andres Bello Catholic University
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Andres Bello Catholic University is 965th in the world, 32nd in Latin America, and 2nd in Venezuela by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 46 notable alumni from Andres Bello Catholic University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Édgar Ramírez
- Occupations
- film actoractor
- Biography
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Edgar Filiberto Ramírez Arellano is a Venezuelan actor. After studying communications at the Andrés Bello Catholic University, Ramírez worked in media and considered becoming a diplomat. When filmmaker Guillermo Arriaga praised a short film he had done, he decided to pursue his performing hobby as a career.
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Juan Guaidó
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- Ingenierospoliticianindustrial engineer
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Juan Gerardo Guaidó Márquez is a Venezuelan opposition politician. He belonged to the social-democratic party Popular Will, and was a federal deputy to the National Assembly representing the state of Vargas. On 23 January 2019, Guaidó and the National Assembly declared that he was acting president of Venezuela (Spanish: Presidente encargado de Venezuela), starting the Venezuelan presidential crisis by challenging Nicolás Maduro's presidency. In December 2022, opposition parties voted to dismiss Guaidó as interim president, choosing Dinorah Figuera as a successor on 5 January 2023 and ending Guaidó's presidential claim.
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Diosdado Cabello
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- military personneltelevision presenterpolitician
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Diosdado Cabello Rondón is a Venezuelan politician and current member of the National Assembly of Venezuela, where he previously served as Speaker. He is also an active member of the Venezuelan armed forces, with the rank of captain.
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Henrique Capriles Radonski
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- politicianlawyer
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Henrique Capriles Radonski is a Venezuelan politician and lawyer, who served as the 36th Governor of Miranda from 2008 to 2017.
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María Corina Machado
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- human rights activistpoliticianindustrial engineer
- Biography
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María Corina Machado Parisca is a Venezuelan opposition politician who served as an elected member of the National Assembly of Venezuela from 2011 to 2014. Machado was the founder and former leader of the Venezuelan volunteer civil organization Súmate, alongside Alejandro Plaz. In 2018, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.
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Lilian Tintori
- Occupations
- human rights activistactivistathletebusinessperson
- Biography
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Lilian Adriana Tintori Parra is a Venezuelan activist, athlete, and television and radio host. Tintori is the wife of Leopoldo López, a Venezuelan politician sentenced in 2015 to nearly 14 years in prison for inciting violence during street protests the year before. She has also led groups who have opposed the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
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Arturo Sosa Abascal
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- philosopherCatholic priest
- Biography
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Arturo Marcelino Sosa Abascal is a Venezuelan Catholic priest who serves as the 31st and present superior general of the Society of Jesus. He was elected by the Society's 36th General Congregation on 14 October 2016, succeeding Adolfo Nicolás. He is the first person born in Latin America to lead the Jesuits.
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Pedro Carmona
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- businesspersoneconomistpoliticianentrepreneur
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Pedro Francisco Carmona Estanga is a former Venezuelan business leader who was briefly installed as acting president of Venezuela in place of Hugo Chávez, following the attempted military coup in April 2002.
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José Antonio Abreu
- Enrolled in Andres Bello Catholic University
- Studied economics
- Occupations
- university teachercomposerconductoreconomistpolitician
- Biography
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José Antonio Abreu Anselmi was a Venezuelan orchestra conductor, pianist, economist, educator, activist, and politician best known for his association with El Sistema. He was honored with the 2009 Latin Grammy Trustees Award, an honor given to people who have contributed to music by the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences.
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Jorge Rodríguez
- Occupations
- politicianpsychiatrist
- Biography
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Jorge Jesús Rodríguez Gómez is a Venezuelan politician and psychiatrist serving as President of the National Assembly of Venezuela since 2021. He previously served as the vice president of Venezuela from 2007 to 2008 and as Mayor of the Libertador Bolivarian Municipality from 2009 to 2017. He is the brother of Delcy Rodríguez, the current vice president.
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Luisa Ortega Díaz
- Occupations
- politicianpublic prosecutor generallawyer
- Biography
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Luisa Marvelia Ortega Díaz is a Venezuelan lawyer. Between December 2007 and August 2017, she served as the Prosecutor General of Venezuela. A proponent of the Chavismo ideology, Ortega Díaz was fired as Prosecutor General on 5 August 2017 by the Supreme Tribunal of Justice and the Constituent National Assembly (ANC) promoted by Nicolás Maduro, following a breaking with the Maduro government as a result of the 2017 Venezuelan constitutional crisis in the context of the crisis in Venezuela. This dismissal was rejected by the opposition-led National Assembly of Venezuela, arguing that only that institution had the power to carry out said removal according to the Constitution, and cataloging the Prosecutor as the only legitimate authority of the Public Ministry. As a result, she is called by the National Assembly, the Supreme Tribunal of Justice of Venezuela in exile and some media outlets as the Prosecutor General of Venezuela in exile.
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Julio Borges
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Julio Andrés Borges Junyent is a Venezuelan politician and lawyer. In the late 1990s he had a TV court show called "Justicia Para Todos" on Radio Caracas Televisión. He co-founded the party Primero Justicia in 2000 together with Henrique Capriles Radonski and Leopoldo Lopez.
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Tamara Adrián
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
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Tamara Adrián is a Venezuelan politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Venezuela in the 2015 Venezuelan parliamentary election. She is noted as the first transgender person elected to office in Venezuela, and only the second transgender member of a national legislature in the Western Hemisphere. Some early media coverage credited her as the first transgender member of a legislature in the Americas, but this was later corrected due to the election of Michelle Suárez Bértora to the Senate of Uruguay in 2014.
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Iñaki Anasagasti
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- politician
- Biography
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Iñaki Anasagasti is a Venezuelan-Spanish politician, belonging to the Basque Nationalist Party.
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Víctor Vargas
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- bankerbusinesspersonlawyer
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Victor Vargas is a Venezuelan banker and businessman, best known for being the former owner and president of the now defunct 14th largest private bank in Venezuela, Banco Occidental de Descuento.
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Kiara
- Occupations
- singeractorlawyer
- Biography
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Gloria Sabrina Gómez Delgado is a Venezuelan singer, composer, actress, lawyer and TV presenter known by her professional name Kiara.
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Maickel Melamed
- Occupations
- economistmarathon runnermotivational speaker
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Michael Melamed is a Venezuelan long-distance runner, motivational speaker, financing coach, teacher in philosophy and physiotherapist. Despite being physically disabled from low muscle tone, he has completed the New York City Marathon, Berlin Marathon, Chicago Marathon and the Boston Marathon. Melamed has also climbed Venezuela's highest mountain, Pico Bolívar. As a consequence of complicated delivery due to nuchal cord, Melamed has generalized muscle hypotonia.
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Robert Serra
- Occupations
- politicianlawyercriminologist
- Biography
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Robert Serra was a Venezuelan politician from Maracaibo and a member of the Venezuelan National Assembly for the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).
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Freddy Guevara
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Freddy Guevara is a Venezuelan politician. He was elected deputy to the Venezuelan National Assembly for Circuit 2 of the Miranda State (made up by Municipalities of Chacao, Baruta, El Hatillo and the parish Leoncio Martínez del Municipio Sucre) representing the Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mesa de Unidad Democrática, MUD) in the parliamentary elections of December 6, 2015. He has been a key figure of the opposition to Nicolás Maduro, Guevara was arrested in July 2021 charged with crimes against the state. The United States and others condemned the arrest as politically-motivated. In mid-August, he was freed as part of negotiations between the Maduro government and the Venezuelan opposition.
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Carlota Sosa
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Carlota Sosa Pietri is a Spanish-born Venezuelan actress known for her participation in various RCTV and Venevisión telenovelas. She is currently married to fellow actor Rafael Romero.
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Patricia Poleo
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Patricia Poleo is a Venezuelan journalist and the winner of the King of Spain Journalism Award for her investigation into the whereabouts of Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori's right-hand man, Vladimiro Montesinos. She is the daughter of the journalist Rafael Poleo, wife of the former student leader Nixon Moreno, a political scientist graduated from the University of the Andes, and former director of her father's newspaper, El Nuevo País. She is known for her work and opposition to the current government in Venezuela.
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Anna Vaccarella
- Occupations
- radio personalityjournalist
- Biography
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Anna Vaccarella is a Venezuelan journalist. She currently works in radio show on Unión Radio.
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Claudio Fermín
- Occupations
- politiciansociologistteacher
- Biography
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Claudio Eloy Fermín Maldonado is a Venezuelan politician. He was deputy minister of youth under Jaime Lusinchi, and subsequently Mayor of Libertador municipality, Caracas (1989–1993) for Acción Democrática, narrowly missing out on re-election to La Causa Radical's Aristóbulo Istúriz. He was the AD candidate in the 1993 presidential election, coming second with 24% of the vote.
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David Smolansky
- Enrolled in Andres Bello Catholic University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in social communication
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David Smolansky Urosa is a Venezuelan political leader, former Mayor of El Hatillo municipality in Caracas, and former Special Envoy of the Organization of American States for the Venezuelan migration and refugee crisis. Smolansky is a pro-democracy activist and freedom fighter, who has led non-violent protests against the Maduro regime. He was forced into exile in 2017, after the regime-controlled Supreme Court issued Smolansky with an illegal arrest warrant, voided his passport, removed him from office, and arbitrarily banned him from holding public positions. Smolansky's case has been brought before the International Criminal Court and was featured in reports by the OAS and the United Nations on potential crimes against humanity.
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Yon Goicoechea
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Yon Alexander Goicoechea Lara is a Venezuelan lawyer, activist and organizer. He emerged as one of the leaders behind the Venezuelan Student Movement, which formed as a result of actions by Hugo Chávez to amass further power as the country's president. He holds degrees from the Andrés Bello Catholic University and Columbia University.
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María Teresa Chacín
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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María Teresa Chacín, is a Venezuelan singer. She has recorded over 50 albums. She has received honors including Latin Grammy Award for Best Latin Children's Album, Guaicaipuro de Oro, Meridiano de Oro, Cardenal de Oro, Gran Sol de Oriente, Idolo de Plata, Mara de Oro, Canaima de Oro, and the award Escenario Juvenil.
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Eduardo Fernández
- Years
- 1940-.. (age 84)
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Eduardo Fernández is a Venezuelan politician and lawyer. He was elected to the Venezuelan Chamber of Deputies in 1968, serving until 1989 (with an interruption to serve as the Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency for Rafael Caldera, until 1974), and was a presidential candidate for COPEI in 1988. He has also served as President of the Christian Democrat International.
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Tamara Sujú
- Occupations
- human rights activistlawyer
- Biography
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Tamara Sujú Roa is a Venezuelan criminal lawyer and human rights specialist.
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José Vielma Mora
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- military personnelpoliticianlawyer
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José Gregorio Vielma Mora was the former governor of the Venezuelan state of Táchira (2012-2017). He is a member of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
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José Rafael Briceño
- Occupations
- comedian
- Biography
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José Rafael Briceño Pulido, better known as el Profesor Briceño, is a Venezuelan comedian, announcer, theatre director and professor. He is the son of the psychologist, diplomat, and minister Mercedes Pulido de Briceño.
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Rafael Arráiz Lucca
- Occupations
- lawyerpoetliterary critichistorian
- Biography
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Rafael Arráiz Lucca is a Venezuelan historian, essayist, poet, and professor.
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Francisco Rodríguez
- Enrolled in Andres Bello Catholic University
- In 1992 studied economics
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Francisco R. Rodríguez is a Venezuelan economist. From 2000 to 2004, he served as the head of the economic and financial advisory of the Venezuelan National Assembly. He also joined Torino Economics, the economic analysis branch of New-York based Torino Capital, as chief economist between 2016 and 2019, and served as policy advisor for presidential candidate Henri Falcón in 2018.
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Pedro Carreño
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Pedro Miguel Carreño Escobar is a Venezuelan politician and lawyer. Carreño has served multiple roles within the Bolivarian Government of Venezuela during the presidencies of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro.
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Ricardo Fernández Barrueco
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Ricardo Fernández Barrueco is a Venezuelan businessman, whose net worth was estimated in 2005 at $1.6bn with "a web of 270 companies in industries as diverse as tuna-fishing and banking". Fernandez' Proarepa Group (nationalised in January 2010) is one of the largest suppliers to the Venezuelan Mercal chain of subsidised state-owned supermarkets.
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Sonia Chocrón
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- writerscreenwriterpoet
- Biography
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Sonia Chocrón is a Venezuelan poet, novelist, screenwriter and playwright of Sephardic origin. She is related to the Venezuelan dramatist Isaac Chocrón.
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Tomás Straka
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Tomás Helmut Straka Medina, is a Venezuelan author and professor of history at the Andrés Bello Catholic University,
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Alfredo Romero
- Occupations
- activistlawyer
- Biography
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Alfredo Romero Mendoza is a Venezuelan lawyer, human rights activist and executive director of the non-governmental organization Foro Penal. He received the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award in 2017.
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Maria Gabriela Brito
- Occupations
- designer
- Biography
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María Gabriela Brito is a Venezuelan-born curator, art advisor, and author based in New York City. Her published works include How Creativity Rules The World published by HarperCollins in 2022, Out There: Design, Art, Travel Shopping, published by Pointed Leaf Press in 2013, and Greek Gotham, published in 2016.
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Luz Mely Reyes
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Luz Mely Reyes is a Venezuelan journalist, writer, and analyst. She is known as the director and co-founder of the digital media franchise Efecto Cocuyo. She has received multiple honors for her work.
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Magdalena Fernández
- Occupations
- artistactor
- Biography
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Magdalena Fernández is a Venezuelan installation and media artist known for her work with light, sound, and abstractions of nature. Her work has been exhibited internationally at the Venice Biennale, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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Nery Santos Gómez
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Nery Santos Gómez is a Venezuelan-American author.
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Milena Łukasiewicz
- Enrolled in Andres Bello Catholic University
- Studied in 2016-2019
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Milena Anna Łukasiewicz is a Polish diplomat, from 2017 to 2023 she served as chargé d'affaires to Venezuela.
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Gonzalo Himiob
- Occupations
- writerlawyeractivist
- Biography
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Gonzalo Himiob Santomé is a Venezuelan lawyer, writer and activist. He is a founding member of the non-governmental organization Foro Penal and is currently its vice-president.
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Carlos Correa
- Born in
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Venezuela - Occupations
- university teacherjournalistactivist
- Biography
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Carlos Correa is a Venezuelan activist and director of the NGO Espacio Público.
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Franártur Duque
- Enrolled in Andres Bello Catholic University
- Studied audiovisual media
- Occupations
- producerstand-up comediantelevision actoractorcomedian
- Biography
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Franártur Duque is a Colombian-Venezuelan actor, comedian and producer. He has been a part of different audiovisual productions in mediums such as television, advertising, cinema, web, video clips, short films, advertising spots and sketches, where in addition to acting he has also worked as a screenwriter, producer and director.
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Ani Villanueva
- Enrolled in Andres Bello Catholic University
- Studied psychology
- Occupations
- painterperformance artistvisual artist
- Biography
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Ani Villanueva is a Venezuelan visual and performance artist who is best known for her performances and collaborative works during the 1980s. Her work is heavily influenced by her extensive education that she received throughout her life. Many of her more notable performances juxtapose fantasy with reality, while her later paintings are abstract and minimalist.
