Leopoldo Castillo
Venezuelan lawyer
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Diplomat
Castillo was the Venezuelan ambassador to El Salvador from 12 November 1981[2]: 2 to 26 January 1983, when he was replaced by Pedro Emilio Coll.[3]: 3
TV host and manager
Castillo hosted the television program Aló Ciudadano on Globovisión, which gave citizens the right to speak both to defend themselves and to reply to any news that was on the air. The program was created in response to the Aló Presidente program of president Hugo Chávez.
Aló Ciudadano was on the air for twelve years and stopped broadcast on 16 August 2013 in a last broadcast where multiple journalists were being fired or resigned.[4][5]
On 14 January 2020, Leopold was appointed by the National Assembly of Venezuela as president of multistate news television network Telesur.[6][7]
