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La Opinión (Argentina)
''La Opinión'' was an argentina, Argentine newspaper, founded by the journalist Jacobo Timerman in 1971. Its ideology was broadly centrism, centrist, inspired partly by the Paris daily ''Le Monde''. History Timerman, an Argentine Jewish immigrant from Ukraine, had previously launched numerous successful news publications in Argentina, notably ''Primera Plana'' and ''Confirmado'' news magazines. Billed as "the news daily for the great minority" in an initial publicity campaign written by a friend of Timerman, author Pedro Orgambide, ''La Opinión'' adopted an editorial line described by Timerman as "rightist economically, centrist politically and leftist culturally." The newspaper was created by a team led by Jacobo Timerman (editor), Julio Algañaraz, Horacio Verbitsky and Juan Carlos Algañaraz, as managing editors. Editors: Tomás Eloy Martínez, Jose Maria Pasquini Durán, Felisa Pinto, Roberto Cossa and Julio Nudler. Its editorial board was led by Timerman, Julio Algañara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspaper
A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports, art, and science. They often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, Obituary, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of Subscription business model, subscription revenue, Newsagent's shop, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often Metonymy, metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published Printing, in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also Electronic publishing, published on webs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Gelman
Juan Gelman (3 May 1930 – 14 January 2014) was an Argentine poet. He published more than twenty books of poetry between 1956 and his death in early 2014. He was a naturalized citizen of Mexico, where he arrived as a political exile of the Process, the military junta that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983. In 2007, Gelman was awarded the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the most important award for Spanish-language literature. His works celebrate life but are also tempered with social and political commentary and reflect his painful experiences with the politics of Argentina. Biography Juan Gelman Burichson was born on 3 May 1930 in the Villa Crespo neighborhood of Buenos Aires to Jewish immigrants from Ukraine. As a boy, he read Russian and European literature widely under the tutelage of his brother Boris. "I am the only Argentine in the family. My parents and my two siblings were Ukrainian. They immigrated in 1928.''Juan Gelman: Semblanza'' In the same brief autobiographical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montoneros
Montoneros (, MPM) was an Argentine far-left politics, far-left Peronism, Peronist, Camilism, Camilist and Catholic Church, Roman Catholic revolutionary Guerrilla warfare, guerrilla organization, which emerged in the 1970s during the "Argentine Revolution" dictatorship. Its name was a reference to the 19th-century cavalry militias called Montoneras, which fought for the Federalist Party (Argentina), Federalist Party in the Argentine civil wars. Radicalized by the political repression of anti-Peronist regimes, the influence of Cuban Revolution and liberation theology worker-priests, the Montoneros emerged from the 1960s Catholic revolutionary guerrilla Comando Camilo Torres as a "national liberation movement", and became a convergence of revolutionary Peronism, Guevarism, and the revolutionary Catholicism of :es:Juan García Elorrio, Juan García Elorrio shaped by Camilism. They fought for the return of Juan Perón to Argentina and the establishment of "Christian national socialism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Investment Banker
Investment banking is an advisory-based financial service for institutional investors, corporations, governments, and similar clients. Traditionally associated with corporate finance, such a bank might assist in raising financial capital by underwriting or acting as the client's agent in the issuance of debt or equity securities. An investment bank may also assist companies involved in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and provide ancillary services such as market making, trading of derivatives and equity securities FICC services (fixed income instruments, currencies, and commodities) or research (macroeconomic, credit or equity research). Most investment banks maintain prime brokerage and asset management departments in conjunction with their investment research businesses. As an industry, it is broken up into the Bulge Bracket (upper tier), Middle Market (mid-level businesses), and boutique market (specialized businesses). Unlike commercial banks and retail banks, investm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Real Estate Developer
Real estate development, or property development, is a business process, encompassing activities that range from the renovation and re-lease of existing buildings to the purchase of raw land and the sale of developed land or parcels to others. Real estate developers are the people and companies who coordinate all of these activities, converting ideas from paper to real property. Real estate development is different from construction or housebuilding, although many developers also manage the construction process or engage in housebuilding. Developers buy land, finance real estate deals, build or have builders build projects, develop projects in joint ventures, and create, imagine, control, and orchestrate the process of development from beginning to end.New York Times, March 16, 1963, "Personality Boom is Loud for Louis Lesser" Developers usually take the greatest risk in the creation or renovation of real estate and receive the greatest rewards. Typically, developers purchas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Graiver
David Graiver (1941 — 1976) was an Argentine businessman and banker who was investigated in the 1970s for alleged money laundering of US$17 million for the Montoneros, a leftist guerrilla group. He was indicted for embezzlement after his reported death by Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, who had thought he might have faked his death, because of the September 15, 1976, failure of American Bank & Trust. This was the fourth-largest bank failure in United States history at the time, and Graiver's banks in Argentina and elsewhere also failed. A New York court declared Graiver officially dead on January 15, 1979, clearing the way for resolution of some outstanding financial issues. Early life and career Graiver was born in Buenos Aires to Eva Gitnacht and Juan Graiver, Polish Jewish immigrants who had come to Argentina in 1931. The family later settled in La Plata, where they developed a successful realty company. David Graiver enrolled at the University of La Plata Law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermenegildo Sábat
Hermenegildo Sábat (23 June 1933 – 2 October 2018) was an Argentine-Uruguayan caricaturist. Life and work Early career in journalism Hermenegildo Sábat was born in the oceanfront Pocitos section of Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1933. Named after a grandparent who had been a noted local artist in his day, Hermenegildo was known as "Menchi," from early childhood. Montevideo's leading news daily, ''El País'', first published a drawing of his - a portrait of Uruguay national football team forward Juan Schiaffino - when the young artist was but 15 years old. Sábat's first work experience in journalism began in 1955 as a graphist in ''Acción'', returning to ''El País'', in 1957. His career prospered in ''El País'', and Sábat became an editor at the daily, as well as contributing work as a staff correspondent, photographer and illustrator. His byline was featured in other Uruguayan periodicals in subsequent years, such as ''Marcha'', ''Lunes'' and ''Reporte'', and he freelanced as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernardo Verbitsky
Bernardo Verbitsky (22 November 1907 – 15 March 1979) was an Argentine writer and journalist. Biography Verbitsky was born of Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant parents (his surname Verbitsky means willow in Ukrainian). He was a screenwriter, a journalist from ''Noticias Gráficas'', and a member of ''Academia Porteña del Lunfardo'' ("Buenos Aires Lunfardo's Academy"). He reported Buenos Aires' ups and downs; his writings were linked to tango (music), tango and other essential aspects of the city. Hugo del Carril based its 1958 motion picture ''Una cita con la vida'' ("A date with life on Verbitsky's novel ''Calles de tango''. His 1957 novel ''Villa Miseria también es América'' (roughly "Povertyville is also [a part of] Americas, America") gave its popular name to Argentina's shanty towns (''villa miseria, villas miseria''). Bernardo Verbitsky died in Buenos Aires on 15 March 1979. Verbitsky is the father of journalist and activist Horacio Verbitsky. Bibliography *''Es difíc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Cossa
Roberto M. Cossa (30 November 1934 – 6 June 2024) was an Argentine playwright and theatre director. Life and work Roberto Cossa was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and raised in the quiet residential borough of Villa del Parque. He first acted in the theatre at the age of 17 and, in 1957, he and friends founded the San Isidro Independent Theatre. An admirer of Fidel Castro, he worked secretly as a local correspondent for Cuba's state-owned press agency, Prensa Latina, between 1960 and 1970. Cossa produced his first play, ''Nuestro fín de semana'' ("Our Weekend") in 1964. The Neo-realist work earned him many Argentinian drama prizes. Contributing to the cultural sections of mainstream Argentine newsdailies such as '' Clarín'', ''La Opinión'' and ''La Nación'' between 1971 and 1976, Cossa avoided direct political references in his work. One exception to this was his play ''El avión negro'' ("The Black Plane", 1970), a commentary on exiled populist leader Juan Perón' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricardo Halac
Ricardo is the Spanish and Portuguese cognate of the name Richard. It derived from Proto-Germanic ''*rīks'' 'king, ruler' + ''*harduz'' 'hard, brave'. It may be a given name, or a surname. People Given name * Ricardo de Araújo Pereira (born 1974), Portuguese comedian *Ricardo Arjona (born 1964), Guatemalan singer *Ricardo Arona (born 1978), Brazilian mixed martial artist *Ricardo Ávila (born 1997), Panamanian footballer * Ricardo Bierhals (born 1990), Brazilian footballer * Ricardo Bralo (1916–?), Argentine long-distance runner * Ricardo Bombine Pimentel (born 1978), Brazilian musician * Ricardo Bueno Fernández (1940-2015), Spanish politician * Ricardo Busquets (born 1974), Puerto Rican swimmer *Ricardo Cardeno (born 1971), Colombian triathlete *Ricardo Carvalho (born 1978), Portuguese footballer *Ricardo Cortez (1900-1977), American actor * Ricardo Darín (born 1957), Argentine actor * Ricardo da Silva (born 1980), Cape Verdean-Portuguese footballer *Ricardo Esgaio, Portu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osvaldo Soriano
Osvaldo Soriano (January 6, 1943 – January 29, 1997) was an Argentine journalist and writer. Biography Soriano was born in Mar del Plata, Argentina. He became a staff writer at '' La Opinión'' right from the start in 1971 when editor Jacobo Timerman founded the newspaper. ''La Opinión'' was permeated with progressive politics, and soon there was an attempt to squash the left-wing influence within the paper. After six months of not having any of his articles published, Soriano began writing a story in which a character named ''Osvaldo Soriano'' reconstructs the life of English actor Stan Laurel. The work became his first novel, ''Triste, solitario y final'' (''Sad, lonely and final''), a melancholic parody set in Los Angeles with the famed fictional Philip Marlowe detective as his joint investigator. It was some months after the publication of his novel that he visited the American city, and actually stood by the grave of Stan Laurel, leaving there a copy of his book. This bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernesto Sábato
Ernesto Sabato (; June 24, 1911 – April 30, 2011) was an Argentine novelist, essayist, painter, and physicist. According to the BBC he "won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature" and "became very influential in the literary world throughout Latin America". Upon his death dubbed him the "last classic writer in Argentine literature". Sabato was distinguished by his bald pate and brush moustache and wore tinted spectacles and open-necked shirts. He was born in Rojas, a small town in Buenos Aires Province. Sabato began his studies at the Colegio Nacional de La Plata. He then studied physics at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, where he earned a PhD. He then attended the Sorbonne in Paris and worked at the Curie Institute. After World War II, he lost interest in science and started writing. Sabato's oeuvre includes three novels: '' El Túnel'' (1948), '' Sobre héroes y tumbas'' (1961) and '' Abaddón el exterminador'' (1974). The first of these receive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
