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    Rómulo Gallegos is considered the most relevant Venezuelan novelist of the 20th century, and a prominent figure in Latin American literature. Rómulo Gallegos...
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    The Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize (Spanish: Premio internacional de novela Rómulo Gallegos) was created on 6 August 1964 by a presidential...
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  • Rómulo Gallegos Municipality may refer to the following places in the Venezuela: Rómulo Gallegos Municipality, Apure Rómulo Gallegos Municipality, Cojedes...
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  • Look up gallegos in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gallegos is a Spanish surname. It is a regional name denoting someone from Galicia. Notable people...
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    Rómulo Ernesto Betancourt Bello (22 February 1908 – 28 September 1981; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈromulo βetaŋˈkuɾ]), known as "The Father of Venezuelan...
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  • literary award named in Gallegos' honor Rómulo Gallegos Municipality (disambiguation), several places in Venezuela Rómulo Gallegos Center for Latin American...
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  • 1947 general election, which resulted in the election of the writer Rómulo Gallegos as president. The period was known as the Trienio Adeco (Adeco Triennium)...
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    Acción Democrática was founded by Betancourt and others. These included Rómulo Gallegos, Andrés Eloy Blanco, Luis Beltrán Prieto, Juan Oropeza, Luis Lander...
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    individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." He also won the 1967 Rómulo Gallegos Prize, the 1986 Prince of Asturias Award, the 1994 Miguel de Cervantes...
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    Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo (category Rómulo Gallegos ministers)
    democratic government of Venezuela, the short-lived administration of Rómulo Gallegos (1947–1948), he was responsible for increasing oil revenues for the...
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    1948 Venezuelan coup d'état (category Rómulo Gallegos)
    Jiménez and Luis Felipe Llovera Páez overthrew the elected president, Rómulo Gallegos, who had been elected in the 1947 Venezuelan general election (generally...
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  • Telemundo. The series is based on the 1929 novel of Venezuelan writer Rómulo Gallegos titled Doña Bárbara, which most recent version was, Doña Bárbara, starred...
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    Carlos Delgado Chalbaud (category Rómulo Gallegos ministers)
    presidencies of Rómulo Betancourt and Rómulo Gallegos. In 1948, Chalbaud was among those who overthrew that government of president Gallegos, and was a member...
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    received a number of awards, including the Premio internacional de novela Rómulo Gallegos (2011), Premio Iberoamericano de las Letras (2005), Premio Planeta...
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  • The novel received the Xavier Villaurrutia Award in 1976 and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize in 1977. Terra Nostra is divided into three parts, "The Old World"...
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  • Doña Bárbara (category Novels by Rómulo Gallegos)
    Doña Bárbara (Lady Bárbara) is a novel by Venezuelan author Rómulo Gallegos, first published in 1929. It was described in 1974 as "possibly the most widely...
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    Rómulo Gallegos Municipality. The municipality is one of a number in Venezuela named "Rómulo Gallegos Municipality", in honour of the writer Rómulo Gallegos...
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    Rómulo Gallegos Municipality. The municipality is one of a number in Venezuela named "Rómulo Gallegos Municipality", in honour of the writer Rómulo Gallegos...
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    essayist and novelist. He was born in Herveo, Tolima. He won the Romulo Gallegos Prize for his novel El país de la canela, part of a trilogy about the...
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    best known for her role as Isabela Sandoval in the adaptation of the Rómulo Gallegos' novel Doña Bárbara titled La Doña, and her role as Silvia Rojas in...
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    under Rómulo Betancourt, until Rómulo Gallegos won the 1947 Venezuelan presidential election (the first free and fair elections in Venezuela). Gallegos governed...
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    Venezuela on 14 December 1947. The presidential elections were won by Rómulo Gallegos of Democratic Action, who received 74.3% of the vote, the largest presidential...
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  • film is based on the 1929 novel Doña Bárbara by Venezuelan author Rómulo Gallegos, who also co-wrote the screenplay. Bárbara is an attractive woman raised...
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    were held in 1947 that resulted in the election of a party member, Rómulo Gallegos. Fears of cuts in pay for soldiers and a lack of modernized army equipment...
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    novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. In 1999, Bolaño won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel Los detectives salvajes (The Savage Detectives)...
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    as numerous battles during the civil war. In the Apurean environs, Rómulo Gallegos was inspired to write his novel Doña Bárbara, which describes the magnitude...
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    politicians against the democratically elected Venezuelan president Rómulo Gallegos who was overthrown and forced into exile, in his place a Military Junta...
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  • 1948–1955  Argentina Rómulo Betancourt President of Venezuela  Venezuela 1948–1958  United States  Cuba  Costa Rica Rómulo Gallegos President of Venezuela...
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    Raúl Leoni (category Rómulo Gallegos ministers)
    1945–48). Leoni took control of the presidency on 13 March 1964, succeeding Rómulo Betancourt; both were members of the Acción Democrática. One of the pillars...
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    1945 Venezuelan coup d'état (category Rómulo Betancourt)
    Democratic Action formally elected to office (with Rómulo Gallegos as president, replacing interim President Rómulo Betancourt), but it was removed from office...
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