If you lived in a Latin American household at any point during the last 55 years, you might recognize this type of melodramatic theme music. This one opened the 1997 remake of a telenovela called ...

Delia Fiallo, the Cuban-born television writer known throughout Latin America as the “mother of the telenovela,” the addictively melodramatic Spanish-language cousin to the American soap opera, died ...

Delia Fiallo falleció el martes a los 96 años, y algunos actores que alcanzaron la fama interpretando sus personajes no tardaron en expresar su pesar. La escritora cubana conocida como la madre de las ...

Cuban writer Delia Fiallo passed away early on Tuesday, a source close to the writer told CNN. The Televisa network reported the death earlier in the day, saying it had spoken with Fiallo’s daughter.

Read full article: ‘We will pass school choice’: Gov. Abbott advocates for school vouchers during San Antonio visit FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2011 file photo, writer Delia Fiallo speaks during an ...

Amherst County Sheriff's Office seeks the public's help in finding a missing child. FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2011 file photo, writer Delia Fiallo speaks during an interview in her home in Coral Gables, ...

The Cuban writer penned more than 40 original scripts, and her work was adapted more than 80 times. She began her career with radionovelas. In 1966, she and her family left in exile for Miami. If you ...