President Maduro Commemorates the 105th Birthday of Poet Achilles Nazoa

The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, commemorated on Saturday the 105th anniversary of the birth of the poet, humorist and journalist Achilles Nazoa, whom he highlighted as “protagonists of deep venezolality and of the values that define our being, the character, the collective personality of a country.” “Aquiles Nazoa is one of those who continues to nourish the national spirit with its light,” the head of state said in a message on soci…

Néstor Rivero Pérez nestor5030@gmail.com On May 17, 1920, he was born in the neighborhood of El Guarataro (Caracas), the poet, humorist and journalist Achilles Nazoa. As a child, he worked as buttons at the Majestic Hotel in the capital, and as a bike and telephone dealer, until he entered the newspaper El Universal as a packager. From now on his life was trapped among newspapers, talks, verses and books. Writing tied him up forever. In 1948 he …