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Vale todo

telenovela

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ1260158 ↗
Source-derived summary

Vale todo, is a telenovela co-produced in 2002 by Rede Globo and Telemundo. The soap opera was an adaptation of the 1988 Brazilian telenovela Vale Tudo and was released for the U.S. Hispanic market on June 17. It starred Mexican actress Itatí Cantoral and Peruvian actor Diego Bertie, and co-starred Argentine Javier Gómez, Ana Claudia Talancón, as well as actress Zully Montero.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Vale todo” is telenovela. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Vale, todo and telenovela, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 1988—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Vale, todo and telenovela is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “telenovela” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1260158. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2002 and 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from “Vale todo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.