Vauro Senesi (born 24 March 1955) is an Italian

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and

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. Vauro was born in

Pistoia Pistoia (, is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of a province of the same name, located about west and north of Florence and is crossed by the Ombrone Pistoiese, a tributary of the River Arno. It is a typi ...

. He was

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's apprentice, and, together with Giancarlo Fusco,

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and others, in September 1978 they founded ''

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'', a satirical weekly newspaper. It was published until March 1982. His cartoons have been published in magazines such as ''Satyricon'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''I quaderni del Sale'', ''L'Echo des Savanes'' and ''

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''. He is director of the satirical e-weekly ''Boxer'', collaborator of '' Il Corriere della Sera'' and Smemoranda. In 1996, he won the Political Satirist Prize of

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. Vauro received international attention in 2009 when he was dismissed from

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over controversial drawings he had shown during a broadcast of the series ''Annozero''. In June 2011 Vauro Senesi announced his intention to sail with the

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setting out to defy the Israeli blockade of the

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. He published in Il Manifesto an "Open Letter to an Admiral", addressed to Admiral

Eli Marom Eliezer (Eli) Marom ("Chayni") ( he, אליעזר "אלי" מרום "צ'ייני", born in 1955, Sde Eliezer, Upper Galilee, Israel) is the former Commander of the Israeli Navy serving from 2007–2011. As of 2015 he serves as the head of the Isra ...

of the

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and setting out his reasons for this act.

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* ww.http://vau.ro/ 1955 births Living people People from Pistoia Italian artists Italian cartoonists Italian journalists Italian male journalists Italian caricaturists {{cartoonist-stub