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[1] and the Theatre Teresa Carreno 1996 2015.

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.

He earned his degree in the same academic act that his younger brother, Boris and another journalists Enma Carolina Agurto (Current director of the Presidential Press Office of the Republic) and Evelyn Guarenas (Reporter of Venezolana de Television).

After being summoned by journalist Vladimir Villegas, by then President of Venezolana de Television, he joined as a reporter, a week before his graduation ceremony, to cover the Economic Source (the subject of his thesis).

Appearing for the first time on screen 23 January 2004, he was later moved to the Political Source after the arrival at the rectory of the television plant journalist Jesús Romero Anselmi also.

He accompanied, from there, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on international tours taking the opportunity to interview, with the passing of the years, presidents like Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (in Brazil), Ricardo Lagos and Michelle Bachelet (in Chile), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), Nicanor Duarte (Paraguay), Jose "Pepe" Mujica and Tabaré Vázquez (Uruguay).

In one of the acts of Rosales' campaign dubbed as the "Avalanche" on Libertador Avenue in Caracas, the reporter discovers that the candidate is not improvising his speech, but reads covertly from leaves held by one of his daughters.

[6] Because of the notoriety gained by this news coverage, after the victory of Hugo Chávez, Castellano is designated by the plant to take the lead, personally, several opinion programs alone.

Successively, "Zero Politics" (2008) in the Radial Circuito Triple F, alongside journalist Mayerling Camacho Pérez (Current host of El Noticiero Venevision) and "Zona de Debate" (2010) the latter aired nationally for a year by fourteen stations of Radio Union Circuit and conducted with his sister Laura Castellanos.

[13] Days before the christening of the book, Castellano led a forum on the subject accompanied by the renowned journalist ballet source in Venezuela, Teresa Alvarenga.

[14] Currently, Castellano prepares three books: "100 Teresa Carreño Ballet Dancers" a joint research with former ballerina Carmen Sequera (to be baptized on 2 February 2017); "Zhandra Rodriguez.