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Hugo Chvez TV series faces backlash from family and President Maduro
Source: Associated Press
Hugo Chávez TV series faces backlash from family and President Maduro
Associated Press in Bogotá
Monday 30 January 2017 18.18 GMT
The revolution will now be televised.
The life of Hugo Chávez, who mesmerized Venezuela’s impoverished masses before dying of cancer in 2013, is being dramatized in a Spanish-language TV series that is generating a backlash even before it airs.
Produced by Sony Pictures Television, El Comandante premieres this week throughout Latin America and in the spring will be broadcast in the US by the Telemundo network.
Conceived by a staunch Chávez critic, the 60-episode series aims to retell the leftist leader’s improbable rise to power from his roots in poor, rural Venezuela while showing how the former tank commander’s authoritarianism laid the groundwork for the country’s current economic mess.
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Associated Press in Bogotá
Monday 30 January 2017 18.18 GMT
The revolution will now be televised.
The life of Hugo Chávez, who mesmerized Venezuela’s impoverished masses before dying of cancer in 2013, is being dramatized in a Spanish-language TV series that is generating a backlash even before it airs.
Produced by Sony Pictures Television, El Comandante premieres this week throughout Latin America and in the spring will be broadcast in the US by the Telemundo network.
Conceived by a staunch Chávez critic, the 60-episode series aims to retell the leftist leader’s improbable rise to power from his roots in poor, rural Venezuela while showing how the former tank commander’s authoritarianism laid the groundwork for the country’s current economic mess.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/30/hugo-chavez-tv-show-el-comandante-venezuela-nicolas-maduro
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