Rodrigo Salvador Salinas Marambio (born 1 February 1975), also known as ''Guatón Salinas'' (lit: Fatty Salinas), is a

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, writer, actor and comedian, well-known for being one of the founders of the art collective ''La Nueva Gráfica Chilena'' and for being a singer-songwriter, director, and voice actor of the children's program 31 Minutos. He is also part of the cast of the comedy space ''El club de la comedia''.

Biography

He is the son of Luis Enrique Salinas Campos (dirigent of the MAPU OC) and María Angélica Marambio Díaz. He received the middle name Salvador, in homage to Chilean ex-president

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, and the first name Rodrigo, in homage to

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, founder of the

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. He studied in the San Ignacio school from first grade up until 12th grade, after which he went to the

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, where he graduated in the arts.

Career

In 2000, he founded the collective La Nueva Gráfica Chilena with Andrés Castillo, Rodrigo Lagos, César Gabler and Matías Iglesis, whose mission is to produce comics, magazines, exhibitions and also small short films. Salinas has also created and released several comic books, including ''Rata Galdames'', ''Morgan Shila'', ''Carlitos Marx'', ''El Reino del Sí'', ''Arturo Prat Is Not Dead'' and ''Una Novela Ecuestre''. In May 2005, he and another group of friends created the publishing house Feroces Editores, which distributes material of

an cartoonists. In 2002, he published his comic book ''Canal 76'', in the ''Wikén'' magazine, in the newspaper ''

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', his comic book Canal 76.'' From 2003 to 2005, he was one of the editors and scriptwriters of the children's program ''31 minutos'', along with doing the voices of characters like Juanín Juan Harry and Mario Hugo. Salinas also participated in '' Experimento Wayapolis'', a children's TV series, which, like ''31 minutos'', was broadcast on

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. In 2007, Salinas launched a book with a ''Canal 76'' treasury book. In 2008 he became a scriptwriter and actor in the TV show ''

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'', broadcast by CHV. Since November 2011, he joined the morning program of

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, ''7 días'', which was broadcast on Sunday mornings and where he conducted ''El mundo según Rodrigo Salinas'', a section in which he toured places of

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. He participated in the election of Rey Guachaca on April 19, 2012, in the popular festival Gran Cumbre Guachaca in the Centro Cultural Estación Mapocho, which he won in a vote made through the Internet. Together with

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they celebrated the traditional party in the popular bar

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. In 2014, he starred in the satirical movie ''Fuerzas especiales''. In 2015, he again played the same paper in its sequel. In 2017, he starred in ''La mentirita blanca'', a film that premiered at the

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and won the award for best screenplay.

Personal life

Salinas was married to María Teresa Viera-Gallo Chadwick from 2008 until 2018, who is the daughter of politician and exminister

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and of María Teresa Chadwick Piñera (sister of

Andrés Chadwick Andrés Pío Bernardino Chadwick Piñera (born 2 January 1956) is a Chilean right-wing politician and lawyer, member of the Independent Democrat Union (UDI) party. He began his political career as a supporter of the Pinochet dictatorship, and wa ...

). He also has one son, Salvador, and one daughter, Laura. He is a self-declared leftist and participated in the TV ads for

Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle Eduardo Alfredo Juan Bernardo Frei Ruiz–Tagle (; born 24 June 1942) is a Chilean politician and civil engineer who served as president of Chile from 1994 to 2000. He was also a Senator, fulfilling the role of President of the Senate from 200 ...

during the 2009–10 Chilean presidential election. He also supported Michelle Bachelet during the 2013 election. In 2005, he joined the campaign to grow the Communist Party of Chile, as to reach the 18,000 legally required members.

References

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