Vauro Senesi (born 24 March 1955) is an Italian journalist and

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. Vauro was born in

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. He was Pino Zac's apprentice, and, together with

Giancarlo Fusco Gian Carlo Fusco (1 July 1915 – 17 September 1984), sometimes spelled Giancarlo Fusco, was an Italian writer, journalist, screenwriter and occasional actor. Biography Born in La Spezia, Fusco spent his childhood in a college in Lucca, and in ...

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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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'', '' Cuore'', ''I quaderni del Sale'', ''L'Echo des Savanes'' and '' El Jueves''. 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 Forte dei Marmi. Vauro received international attention in 2009 when he was dismissed from RAI 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 Israeli Navy 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