PROFILE

At seventeen, he traveled to Moscow to study Marxism-Leninism at an institute affiliated with the Central Committee of the Komsomol (Young Communist League of the USSR). In 1984, while a member of the Executive Committee of the Communist Party's youth organization, he resigned his party affiliation and entered professional journalism. He contributed to the Buenos Aires newspapers La Razón and El Periodista; was an editor for Semana Gráfica, Acción, and Somos; director of the APDH (Permanent Assembly for Human Rights) monthly magazine; managing editor of Gente; editor of Página/12 and Perfil; and editor-in-chief of 3 Puntos magazine. He was the editorial director of the publishing house Capital Intelectual. In 2014 and 2015, he worked as a current affairs analyst on Fernando Bravo's program on Radio Continental and served on the Board of Directors of the Argentine Political Club. From December 2015 to October 2018, he was Secretary of Public Media for the Argentine government. He writes for the Opinion section of the newspaper La Nación. He is the author of the book "The Day I Killed My Father: Confessions of an Ex-Communist"