MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Mexico’s iconic television comedian Roberto Gomez Bolanos, who enchanted generations of Latin American children by playing an orphan who lived in a barrel and a goofy superhero, died on Friday aged 85.
“Televisa laments the death of Don Roberto Gomez Bolanos,‘Chespirito,’ an essential figure of Mexican televisions,” the broadcaster wrote on Twitter.
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