José María Pasquini Durán (1939 – 13 February 2010) was an Argentine journalist, writer, teacher and

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'' that he helped to found.

Biography

He was born in 1939 in

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Trajectory

In 1960, he started to work as freelance editor in union newspapers, one of them were the "CGT de los Argentinos" of

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, in which redaction was mate of

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, El Periodista and

, where he was politic editorialist since its foundation in 1987. During the last military dictatorship he was Latin American director of the IPS agency from Rome.

Radio

He directed and led news programs in TV and radio. In the 1980s, with the recovery of the democracy, LR3 Radio Belgrano put in the air renovator programs like "Stories in Study".

TV

He was supplier of the TV channels intervention. Carlos Ulanovsky remembers: ''"The 1974 September 13, they don't let enter Mirtha Legrand to Canal 13 (Argentina), Canal 13 and they notify her that her program was prohibited (...) The coordanator, Alicia Norton, learns by Pasquini Durán that the program is over."'' Pasquini Durán was a creative part of the miniserie ''Men in Conflict'' a rarity by Canal 7 Argentina commissioned by a sector of military hoping to show that in those hard times as Juan Manuel de Rosas with battles between Unitarian Party, units and Federales (Argentina), federals, could also have agreements: ''Together with José María Pasquini Durán and Roberto Cossa (also prohibited by the dictatorship), the screenwriters should overcome one of the biggest challenges: talk about what they are asked to say, but use all the possible strategies for the eye of the censor don't see what the spectator would see. The writers work hard to see how much they can say without the dictatorship intervening and destroying books.''

Academic

He made academic activities in the National University of La Plata and in the University of Buenos Aires. He gave conferences and participated in seminars in Argentina and abroad, during the latest thirty years. He worked in Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guyana, Italia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Venezuela.

Consultancies

He was consultant of: *UNESCO *Latin American Economic System *Andean Community of Nations *United Nations Population Fund *World Association for Christian Communication *Latin American Council of Churches

References

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