Jorge Lanata

ARGENTINA, 1960

Jorge Lanata is one of the most brilliant nonconformist minds in Argentinian journalism. Respected and admired for his independent thinking, he achieved massive popularity in 1983 after founding and editing Página/12, Argentina’s most critical daily paper, when democracy was being reinstated in the country after almost 10 years of military dictatorship. He is a figurehead of Argentinian journalism and a leader of the more progressive side of the local public opinion. His book Argentinos is a wonderfully fresh two volume review of Argentinian history, from the foundation of Buenos Aires up to the moment when caretaker president Duhalde took office in January 2002 after the worst economic and political crisis in the nation’s history. With his typical directness and apparent informality, Jorge Lanata rakes through Argentinian history from a fresh critical standpoint. Argentinos sold over 300,000 copies. In ADN. Mapa genético de los defectos argentinos, he analyses the historical causes of the flaws of his fellow Argentinians. ADN starts comparing the vision foreigners had and still have of Argentinians face to the idea that the Argentinians have of themselves in order to set out the myths, desires, heroes, sex, obsessions and the “double life” that have characterized Argentina through history.

© Daniel Mordzinski

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