Gustavo Cisneros

Gustavo Cisneros (born in 1946) is a leader Venezuelan world of the Média S.

The magazine Forbes locates it like one of the richest men of the world. The newspaper The NewYork Times calls it “ one of the most powerful figures of the Latin America ” and him and his wife, Patricia Cisneros (born Phelps) are regarded as “ a powerful Latin-American couple of the business and on the international social scene ”

The richness of Cisneros comes from the action S which it has in the media, the Télécommunication S, in the industry of the leisures and companies of consumables. The group Cisneros ( Cisneros Group off Companies ) is one of the largest private media companies of the world. He is also the largest shareholder of Univision, the Spanish-speaking chain of most important Télévision of the the United States, and the owner of the principal private television channel of the Venezuela, Venevision International, which produces and distributes programs of information and leisures everywhere in the world.

Defender for a long time of the free enterprise, Gustavo Cisneros widened his operations abroad and in markets overseas, including the United States, the Spain and, more recently, the China.

One of its greater successes is the fact of having played a key function in the development of the serials ( Telenovela ) based on hard Latin-American realities. These serials are followed by approximately 2 billion people in the world. With an aim of paying homage to its international success, in 2005, Gustavo Cisneros was named MIPCOM “ Personality off the Year ”, an important price of the world of the media.

The Foundation Cisneros (Fundación Cisneros) directs a significant number of cultural and educational programs aiming at improving quality of life of the Latin-American ones. After the recent consolidation of the capacity of President Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, Gustavo Cisneros was devoted in particular to its business overseas.

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