Daniel Alirio Castellano Amarista (born 20 November 1972) journalist, writer and Venezuelan researcher, who reached public notoriety serving for nine years as a reporter and host of opinion talk shows on Venezolana de Television for the media coverage he did in (for this television broadcast station) of the electoral campaign of Manuel Rosales (opposition candidate to the government of Hugo Chávez) and by the publication, during 2015, of his first book The Nutcracker of Vicente Nebrada and the Theatre Teresa Carreno 1996 2015. Childhood and studies Daniel Castellano was born in Baruta, Miranda state, now part of the Great Caracas, in Leopoldo Aguerrevere Clinic. Son of Alirio Castellanos, industrial psychologist and Marisol Amarista, educator, is the eldest of three brothers: Laura Castellanos (National Prize of Journalism 2001 and current correspondent of CNN in Spanish in Venezuela) and Boris Castellanos (National Prize of Journalism 2012 and current reporter and newscaster of news in Venezolana de television). By typographical error, being registered at birth, his name is Castellano and not Castellanos like the rest of his siblings. During childhood, his family lived in a populous area of Caracas Capital: Caricuao, while his father combined studies of psychology with police work in the Metropolitan Police and his mother with that as a secretary in a company of domestic gas. Once his parents got their degrees at the Central University of Venezuela and the University Simón Rodríguez, their income improved and the family moved to El Paraiso, a middle-class area of Caracas. From an early age, Daniel and his siblings were influenced by the academic environment in which their parents who constantly studying and reading at home late into the night unfolded. It was also a custom, buy every Sunday all the available press and thoroughly review it. Laura Castellanos would comment, as an adult, in an interview with The National in 2009: "No, no one from our family is a journalist, my parents always read the newspaper on Sunday mornings and we got used to that". The three brethren, they even got to draw, weekly, a weekly bulletin and pin informative boards on the walls of their home as part of their children's games. Career Upon completion with honors his secondary education at the Liceo de Application Montalban, Daniel began studying Public Accounting in the Central University of Venezuela, while Laura entered a year later at the School of Social communication and Boris