Adriana Puiggrós
Adriana Puiggrós | |
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| Born | September 12, 1941 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Occupation | Politician, writer and academic |
Adriana Puiggrós (born September 12, 1941) is an Argentine writer, academic and politician.
Life
[edit]Puiggrós was born in Buenos Aires in 1941. Her father was Rodolfo Puiggrós who was a historian and a communist. He changed political direction and joined the Peronist party, which was anti-Marxist, during the 1950s. Her father became the rector of the University of Buenos Aires in the early 1970s and Adriana was elected dean of the Philosophy faculty.[1]
She is a member of the Broad Front political party and on 17 December 2011 she was elected president of the party with Alberto Weretilneck as vice-president.[2]
In 2021 she was an adviser to the President Alberto Fernández. She was involved in a dispute over when to get children to return to school during the pandemic. Horacio Rodríguez Larreta was arguing for a date in mid February, but Puiggros argued that it should be delayed until March when the teachers could be vaccinated.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Jesper Eckhardt Larsen (2012). Knowledge, Politics and the History of Education. LIT Verlag Münster. pp. 164–165. ISBN 978-3-8258-1561-5.
- ^ "Adriana Puiggrós es la nueva Presidenta del Frente Grande". Frente Grande. 17 December 2011. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
- ^ "Puiggrós, asesora presidencial: "No tiene sentido empezar las clases en febrero "". www.lanacion.com.ar (in Spanish). 2021-01-16. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
External links
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