El cinco de mayo/May 5th
¡Feliz cumpleaños a ... Lilian Tintori! (1978- ) Lilian Tintori at a rally in support of political prisoners in Venezuela in 2015. Click HERE for full story. Wife of Venezuela's jailed (now on house arrest) opposition leader Leopoldo López , Tintori was a Venezuelan athlete and television and radio personality before becoming involved in politics through her marriage to López in 2006. Born in Caracas, the capital, to a Venezuelan mother and an Argentinian father, she studied at Merici Academy and earned a Bachelor's degree in preschool education with a minor in political communications from the Andrés Bello Catholic University. Her career in the entertainment industry began with a 2001 stint on the popular Venezuelan reality tv show Robinson: La Gran Aventura . She was then a television host with RCTV and Televen. She was also Venezuela's 2003 Kitesurfing National Champion. She and López were married in May of 2007, when he was mayor of Chacao...