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| | Florida Brazil - The Telenovela is Born |
 | | Telenovelas in Latin America share common denominators, such as the melodramatic storyline filled with characters that give life not only to romance but also to everyday struggles (Straubhar and Viscasillas; 1991, Mazziotti, 1992). |
 | | In Mexico, telenovelas follow the melodramatic tradition of the Cuban radionovelas, they tend to have a main protagonist couple living a romance that will have to battle many difficulties, such as class differences, secrets about the family of origin or a villain that will do anything to break the couples apart. |
 | | Lopez (1995) adds that Colombian telenovelas are more of a humoristic genre with emphasis on the context, while Brazilian novelas are the most realistic, with clear historical narratives, and time and space context is easily identified. |
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