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José María Pasquini Durán (1939 in Salta – 13 February 2010 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine journalist, writer, teacher, political analyst, and one of the main writers of the newspaper Pagina 12, that he helped to found.
In 1960, he started to work as freelance editor in union newspapers, one of them were the "CGT de los Argentinos" of Raimundo Ongaro, in which redaction was mate of Rodolfo Walsh. He was prosecretary of the redaction of Revista Panorama. He was also secretary of the redaction of the Colombian newspaper La Opinión, of Jacobo Timerman, El Periodista and Página 12, 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 Roma.
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".
He was supplier of the TV channels intervention. Carlos Ulanovsky remembers:
"The 1974 September 13, they don't let enter Mirtha LegrandtoCanal 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 units and 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.
He worked in Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guyana, Italia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Perú and Venezuela.
He was consultant of:
He died on 13 February 2010 of a cardiac arrest in the Buenos Aires clinic Trinidad, where he was interned since two days before.[1][2]
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