48 Notable alumni of
Andres Bello Catholic University
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Andres Bello Catholic University is 944th in the world, 31st in Latin America, and 2nd in Venezuela by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 48 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
- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Édgar Filiberto Ramírez Arellano is a Venezuelan actor.
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Juan Guaidó
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- industrial engineerpolitician
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Juan Gerardo Antonio Guaidó Márquez is a Venezuelan politician and opposition figure. He belonged to the social-democratic party Popular Will, and was a federal deputy to the National Assembly representing the state of Vargas. He was a key figure in the Venezuelan presidential crisis between 2019 and 2023, when he was recognized by 88 countries, the European Parliament, Andean Parliament, Organization of American States etc. as the legitimate president of Venezuela vis-à-vis Nicolás Maduro by 49 countries.
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María Corina Machado
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- human rights defenderindustrial engineerpolitician
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María Corina Machado Parisca is a Venezuelan politician, activist, and prominent leader of the opposition to the administrations of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro. She served as a member of the National Assembly of Venezuela from 2011 to 2014, and has run as a candidate in presidential elections. She was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize; she presented the medal to U.S. president Donald Trump after the 2026 U.S. strikes in Venezuela and capture of Maduro.
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Henrique Capriles Radonski
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- lawyerpolitician
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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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Arturo Sosa Abascal
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- regular clericphilosopherCatholic priest
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Arturo Marcelino Sosa Abascal SJ is a Venezuelan Catholic priest who has served as the 31st superior general of the Society of Jesus since 2016. He was elected by the Society's 36th General Congregation to succeed 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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- economistbusinesspersonentrepreneurpolitician
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Pedro Francisco Carmona Estanga is a Venezuelan politician, economist, and businessman. He was president of the business federation Fedecámaras and served as de facto President of Venezuela for 47 hours following the 2002 coup attempt.
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Lilian Tintori
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- activisthuman rights defenderbusinesspersonathlete
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Lilian Adriana Tintori Parra is a Venezuelan activist, athlete, and television and radio host. Tintori is married to 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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José Antonii jhendry jaja
- Enrolled in Andres Bello Catholic University
- Studied economics
- Occupations
- composerharpsichordistuniversity teacherpianistorganist
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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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Luisa Ortega Díaz
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- juristlawyerpublic prosecutor generalpolitician
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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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Kiara
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- actorsingerlawyer
- 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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Julio Borges
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- lawyerpolitician
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Julio Andrés Borges Junyent is a Venezuelan politician and lawyer. In the late 1990s, Borges hosted a TV court show called "Justicia Para Todos" (Spanish: Justice for All) on Radio Caracas Televisión. He later co-founded the party Primero Justicia in 2000 along with Henrique Capriles and Leopoldo López.
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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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- bankerlawyerbusinessperson
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Victor Vargas is a Venezuelan banker and businessman, best known for being the former owner and president of the 4th largest private bank in Venezuela, Banco Occidental de Descuento. The bank was recognized as the fourth largest private financial entity in Venezuela and was noted by reports for climbing the Forbes list of the world's most valuable companies. BOD was later integrated with another financial entity BNC.
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Tamara Adrián
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- lawyerpolitician
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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 openly transgender person elected to office in Venezuela, and only the second openly transgender member of a national legislature in the Western Hemisphere. Some early media coverage credited her as the first openly 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. In 2023 Tamara became the first openly transgender candidate in a presidential election.
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Corina Yoris
- Enrolled in Andres Bello Catholic University
- Graduated with licentiate in literary studies, philosophy, and history
- Occupations
- literary scholaruniversity teacherlogicianphilosopherpolitician
- Biography
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Corina Yoris Villasana is a Venezuelan philosopher and professor, who was the Unitary Platform candidate in the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election, as the replacement for María Corina Machado, who was politically disqualified. Yoris was unable to register and was replaced by Edmundo González Urrutia.
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Robert Serra
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- criminologistlawyerpolitician
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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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Maickel Melamed
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- economistmotivational speakermarathon runner
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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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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
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- 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
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- 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
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- journalistradio personality
- 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
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- teachersociologistpolitician
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Claudio Eloy Fermín Maldonado is a Venezuelan politician and sociologist. 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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Jorge Rodríguez
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- psychiatristpolitician
- Biography
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Jorge Jesús Rodríguez Gómez is a Venezuelan politician serving as President of the National Assembly of Venezuela since 2021. He is the brother of Delcy Rodríguez, the vice president and acting president of Venezuela.
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David Smolansky
- Enrolled in Andres Bello Catholic University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in mass communication
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David Smolansky Urosa is a Venezuelan journalist and politician who has served as Deputy Director of the Comando Con Venezuela in Washington D.C. since 2023. A member of Vente Venezuela, he previously served as Mayor of El Hatillo Municipality in Miranda from 2013 to 2017, and Special Envoy of the Organization of American States for the Venezuelan migrants and refugee crisis.
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Yon Goicoechea
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- lawyerpolitician
- 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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Eduardo Fernández
- Years
- 1940-.. (age 86)
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- 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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María Teresa Chacín
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- 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. She represented Venezuela in the OTI Festival 1983 with the song "Esperanza americana".
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Tamara Sujú
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- lawyerhuman rights defender
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Tamara Sujú Roa is a Venezuelan criminal lawyer and human rights specialist. Sujú has played a predominant role in the fight for human rights in Venezuela, using her platforms to advocate for justice and spread awareness of the crimes committed by the Venezuelan government.
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José Vielma Mora
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- military personnellawyerpolitician
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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
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- 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
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- historianliterary criticpoetlawyer
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Rafael Arráiz Lucca is a Venezuelan historian, essayist, poet, and professor.
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Juan Carlos Chirinos
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- biographeruniversity teachernovelistwriterindependent scholar
- Biography
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Juan Carlos Chirinos García is a Venezuelan writer and creative writing teacher. He is a novelist, story writer and biographer. Since 2023, he is corresponding member of the Academia Venezolana de la Lengua.
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Pedro Carreño
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- lawyerpolitician
- 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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Francisco Rodríguez
- Enrolled in Andres Bello Catholic University
- In 1992 studied economics
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Francisco R. Rodríguez is an economist from Venezuela. He is the Rice Family Professor of the Practice of International and Public Affairs at the University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Studies and a senior research fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
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Ricardo Fernández Barrueco
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- businessperson
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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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- poetscreenwriterwriter
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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
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- 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
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- lawyeractivist
- 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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Luz Mely Reyes
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- journalistwriter
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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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José Carabaño
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- graphic designertalent managermusic executive
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José Carabaño, known professionally as Junior, is a Venezuelan music executive, talent manager and graphic designer. He is the co-founder and vice president of Rimas Entertainment, and also the representative of artists such as Neutro Shorty, and Big Soto, among others.
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Maria Gabriela Brito
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- designer
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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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Magdalena Fernández
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- actorartist
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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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Carlos Correa
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- university teacheractivistjournalist
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Carlos Correa is a Venezuelan activist and director of the NGO Espacio Público.
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Nery Santos Gómez
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- 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
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- activistlawyerwriter
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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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Franártur Duque
- Enrolled in Andres Bello Catholic University
- Studied audiovisual
- Occupations
- television actorstand-up comedianproducercomedianactor
- 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
- paintervisual artistperformance artist
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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.
