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Gustavo Bolívar (author)

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Gustavo Bolívar
General Director of Social Prosperity
Assumed office
5 March 2024
PresidentGustavo Petro
Preceded byLaura Sarabia
Senator of Colombia
In office
20 July 2018 – 31 December 2022
Personal details
Born
Gustavo Bolívar Moreno

(1966-02-22) 22 February 1966 (age 58)
Atanasio Girardot stadium, Colombia
Political partyHumane Colombia (since 2022)
Alma materUniversity of La Sabana

Gustavo Bolívar Petrovsky (born 22 July 1966) is a Colombian author, screenwriter and journalist, currently serving as General Director of Social Prosperity and previously as Senator of Colombia from 2018 to 2022.[1][2]

Among his most well-known novels is Sin tetas no hay paraiso, which would gain international fame for its three television adaptations: Sin tetas no hay paraíso; the first produced by Caracol Television in 2006, the second Sin senos no hay paraíso produced and broadcast by RTI ColombiaTelemundo in 2008. And the third Sin tetas no hay paraíso, already adapted by Telecinco, produced in 2008 and broadcast in 2009. It was also adapted into a film directed by Bolívar in 2011.[3]

He is also known for writing the novel El capo and later adapting it to a telenovela. He also was the creator of the telenovelas Victorinos, Ojo por ojo and Tres Caínes.

He is the only senator to donate his entire salary to social works and to a digital media, Cuarto de hora.[4]

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References

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  1. ^ Rodríguez, Paula Valentína (4 March 2024). "Gustavo Bolívar, director de Prosperidad Social: estas son las funciones que tendrá que desempeñar el excongresista sin experiencia alguna". infobae.com. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
  2. ^ López, Alejandra (1 March 2024). "Gustavo Bolívar, nuevo director de Prosperidad Social: Cuándo se posesiona y qué reacciones hay". colombia.as.com. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
  3. ^ Velásquez Loaiza, Melissa (25 October 2023). "Gustavo Bolívar, el escritor de las "narconovelas" y defensor de Petro que quiere ser alcalde de Bogotá". cnnespañol.cnn.com. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  4. ^ "Gustavo Bolivar : «La Colombie est une dictature déguisée en démocratie". 8 May 2021.
  • Bolívar, Gustavo (2006). Sin Tetas No Hay Paraíso. Bogotá: Oveja Negra. p. 300. ISBN 84-934791-3-6.
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