Adriana Puiggrós

Adriana Puiggrós

Puiggrós in 2011
Born September 12, 1941
Buenos Aires
Occupation Politician, writer and academic
Nationality Argentina

Adriana Puiggrós (born September 12, 1941) is an Argentinan writer, academic and politician.

Life

Puiggrós was born in Buenos Aires in 1941. Her father was Ricardo 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]

References

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  1. Jesper Eckhardt Larsen (2012). Knowledge, Politics and the History of Education. LIT Verlag Münster. pp. 164–165. ISBN 978-3-8258-1561-5.
  2. "Adriana Puiggrós es la nueva Presidenta del Frente Grande". Frente Grande. 17 December 2011.


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