Bernardo del Carmen Fregoso Cázares, who worked and lived under the name Carmelo Torres Fregoso was a matador, businessman, journalist, author and TV producer. He lived in Venezuela from 1952. His first bullfight as "matador" was in Barranquilla, Colombia in 1949 and last in Nezahualcóyotl City, Mexico in 1986. With 37 years of uninterrupted activity this was one of the world's longest careers as a matador.
Business career
He was the founder of "Lucy Venetian Blinds" and manager for Levolor-Lorentzen in South America. He introduced the concept of miniblinds into the South American market with the "Magic Wand"', 1981, Photo Cat Fletcher
Torres founded in 1979 with his son Cat Fletcher, Video Bullfighting System, the first business specializing in recording bullfights in Venezuela. They were the official cameramen of the most important figures in bullfighting of that time. Their business changed its name to International Television Studios in 1982 to reflect its diversification into other fields of broadcasting. He was bullfighting correspondent of Venezuelan Television in 1979 and 1980 and for the Mexican Channel 13 XHDF from 1979 to 1982. With Felo Gimenez he co-produced bullfighting programs for Sports Venevisión. He was executive producer of the documentary Sport in Mexico City and its Function in the Social Development of the Population which won the UNESCO Prize in 1982. From 1982 to 1985 he contributed to the programBulls and BullfightersXEIPN-TV, Once-TV channel 11 Mexico. His last production was The Bulls in the World. As bullfighting columnist for the newspaper El Universal from 1970 to 1973 he wrote under the penname Cartof. He was also a correspondent for the Mexican paper El Redondel and the Spanish Digame.
Literary career
Carmelo Torres' first unpublished work was called "Broken Illusion", a novel, which he did not finish writing. In Mexico he wrote under the nickname "Granero", a famous matador killed by a bull named "Pocapena". Carmelo Torres says of this: "- Granero was killed by "little shame" and I have very little shame to be a writer. Dr Pepe Cabello published "Redondel de Ilusiones" based on the chronicles that, written as Cartof, were in the newspaper "El Universal" of Caracas. Carmelo Torres co-wrote with Dr Pepe Cabello a book called Illusions Ring. In 1991 "Boldness" is published, Carmelo Torres being the author, under the seal of International Television Studios. This was his third work and his second to be printed.
