Carlos Rangel

Carlos Enrique Rangel Guevara (Caracas, September 17, 1929 - January 15, 1988), was a Venezuelan journalist, academic, and diplomat. He is a television figure and one of the main promoters of liberalism in Venezuela.

Biography

Youth and family

He was born in Caracas, the son of Magdalena Guevara Hermoso and José Antonio Rangel Báez.

Studies

He completed his elementary and high school studies in the city of Caracas, but he did all his higher education in the United States and Europe. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Bard College and obtained the Certificat d´Etudes from the Sorbonne in Paris. ^{[citation needed ]} Later, he completed a master's degree at the New York University.

Work life

Because of his fluency in English and French, he received formal certification as a translator. He served as an instructor at the University of New York in 1958, and then, between 1961 and 1963, he held the chair of Opinion Journalism at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV). He held the position of first secretary of the Venezuelan embassy in Brussels in 1959. Almost twenty years later, he returned to the field of international relations when he assumed the position of chief ambassador of the Venezuelan mission to the Dominican Republic for the inauguration of the President Joaquin Balaguer.

In 1960 he began his journalistic activity, which he continued to practice continuously for the next ten years with positions as director of the magazine Momento and moderator on television programs such as Frente a la Prensa. During his twenty years in the television space, he debated his ideas on many topics related to news events with prominent national and foreign personalities. With his first wife, Barbara Barling, he had four children: Antonio Enrique, Carlos José, Magdalena Teresa, and Diana Cristina. Together with his second wife Sofía Ímber, he began to carry out the television program Buenos días , which was broadcast by Venevisión, within the morning marathon Buenos Días Venezuela . Rangel committed suicide on January 15, 1988 at the age of 58.

Works

In 1976 he published From the Good Savage to the Good Revolutionary and later El tercermundismo (1982). Prefaced by the French intellectual Jean-François Revel. He was also a regular columnist for the national and international press. ^{[citation needed ]} Some of his articles were published posthumously in a book entitled Marx and real socialisms and other essays .