For three consecutive weeks this summer, the Spanish-language TV network Univision has won the prime-time ratings among young adult viewers. Latin drama series called telenovelas — similar to but not ...

Morning Edition has been reporting from Venezuela this week about the legacy of the late President Hugo Chavez. During the two years Chavez spent in prison for an attempted coup in 1992, he never ...

The first telenovela my parents watched was Telemundo’s “Guadalupe.” Its outlandish plot will be recognizable to anyone familiar with the soap opera genre. Guadalupe, the title character, is the ...

While most kids in the mid-1990s were watching "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air" or "Seinfeld" during the prime-time block, my evenings were packed with back to back episodes of the latest telenovelas. I ...

Perhaps only slightly more addictive to their audiences than to the many actors who earn their livings in them, Latin American telenovelas are an international sensation. In the United States, ...

We love telenovelas because they have a beginning and an end. They are short stories that make us dream and transport us into worlds where everything is over the top and every situation becomes a ...

Fiallo's telenovelas including 'Lucecita,' 'Peregrina,' 'María de nadie,' 'Pobre diabla' and 'Esmeralda' were translated into languages such as Japanese and Czech, reaching millions of people in more ...

Romance. Drama. That's what drives telenovelas, Latin American soap operas, one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the world, with hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide. Telenovelas -- ...

A good telenovela has the power to bring people together—just ask any Latinx household or your favorite abuelita. You get over-the-top plot twists! Drama-filled reactions! Crazy, swoon-inducing love ...

More Brazilians watched telenovela America than their World Cup win The telenovelas - Latin American soap dramas - are stereotypical, over the top and melodramatic - but, also, highly successful. In ...