They help increase the viewer¹s vocabulary, teach new ways of saying things and improve channels of communication. According to Jorge Ignacio Covarrubias, the secretary of North American Academy of the Spanish Language, telenovelas enrich and spread the Spanish language. In La Nación newspaper there was an article about the benefits of watching soap operas for native Spanish speakers. The novela is also a valuable learning tool. Have criticized the wave of Colombian soap operas for glamorizing the life of drug lords and for selling the drug culture as a risk-free entree into the high life. Recent productions like “El Capo,” “Sin Tetas No Hay Paraiso” and “El Cartel de los Sapos” are social commentaries about real life problems that presently plague Colombia. Narconovelas are a new phenomenon that have come from Colombia. Telenovelas have a sociological component because they reflect many real – life situations and issues in Latin America. The good people are always rewarded in novelas. The final show (desenlace) of a novela typically features a wedding between the two leads, some horrible death or fate for the villain and redemption for the bad guys who were less evil than the villain. The first global telenovela was “Los Ricos También Lloran” (“The Rich Cry Too”, Mexico, 1979), which was exported to Russia, China, the United States and other countries. Spanish soap operas are even becoming popular in other countries where they are dubbed into different languages. One series will typically run for seven to 14 months. In Spanish-speaking countries major television stations show at least four to six novelas per day. The most popular ones last about an hour and appear Monday through Friday evenings (7 to 10 p.m.) on most Spanish TV networks. The first telenovelas were produced in Brazil, Cuba and Mexico in the 1950s.
Telenovelas seem to be the opiate of the masses in Latin America.
A telenovela or novela is a Spanish language soap opera.
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