Lil del Valle Rodríguez (born 20 January 1952) is a

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n journalist. Her most recent position is president of the board of directors of

Caracas Caracas ( , ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern p ...

-based

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''(Televisora Venezolana Social),'' which began its broadcasting on 27 May 2007, following the

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non-renewal of the terrestrial broadcast licence of the station which had previously used the frequency. Lil Rodríguez was born in Caracas during the presidency of

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, against whose government her mother was an activist. A part of her childhood was spent in her mother's home town of

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, Estado Sucre, before she returned to the capital to study, first, psychology at the

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and, subsequently, journalism at the Universidad del Zulia in Estado Zulia. Her speciality is in cultural journalism, and she is an expert in

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, particularly the popular folk music of the

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and

. She is also an astrologist, after having studied that discipline for 12 years. She began her working life at the

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. While employed there she began writing for ''

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''. She has also written for a string of other newspapers, including '' El Nacional, El Globo'' and ''

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'', and she has published one book, ''Bailando en la casa del trompo,'' on the topic of Caribbean music. She has also worked as a radio presenter for several private Venezuelan broadcasters and for the

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n station

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References

*https://web.archive.org/web/20070926220926/http://encontrarte.aporrea.org/creadores/musica/47/a12423.html *https://web.archive.org/web/20070930010155/http://www.lailatina.net/index.php?option=com_akostaff&Itemid=81&func=fullview&staffid=1

External links

Interview with Lil Rodríguez
'' Diario La Voz,'' 28 May 2007 {{DEFAULTSORT:Rodriguez, Lil Mass media people from Caracas People from Cumaná Venezuelan women journalists Venezuelan radio presenters Venezuelan women radio presenters 1952 births Living people