Drug trafficking and use is often glorified and trivialized in pop culture, but even feminists who protest this portrayal ignore how their own drug use fuels human trafficking and the arms trade
Delia Fiallo, screenwriter known as ‘the mother of the telenovela,’ dies at 96 Harrison Smith A young woman writes radio soap operas in Cuba, where she falls in love with a director who brings her scripts to life. They marry and start a family, while she transitions from radio to television and writes prime-time telenovelas, bringing a typewriter into the hospital to keep working after she gives birth. But there is a problem: Fidel Castro, whose repressive regime leads her to flee to Miami with her mother, husband, five children, children’s nanny and three scripts. Forced to restart her career, she sells her soap operas to a broadcaster in Venezuela and begins churning out 35 pages a day, writing telenovelas that are produced across Latin America.