Horacio Verbitsky
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Horacio Verbitksy (born 1942 in Buenos Aires) is a prominent Argentine investigative journalist and author.
He writes for the left-leaning Argentine newspaper Página/12 and heads up the Centre for Legal and Social Studies (CELS), a human-rights organisation.
He quickly attained to international fame when he published the account of the 1976-1983 dictatorship's brutality, courtesy of a confession by naval officer Adolfo Scilingo. The subsequent book – The Flight: Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior – became a bestseller. It was republished following Scilingo's trial and conviction on human rights abuses in Spain.
In 2001, Verbitsky was one of four winners of the CPJ International Press Freedom Awards [1] for his reporting and his work in defending press freedom in Argentina.
[edit] Bibliography
- The Flight: Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior
- Ezeiza, Contrapunto, Buenos Aires, 1985 (on the 1973 Ezeiza massacre, available in Spanish here)
- The Silence, extract transl. in English made available by Open Democracy: Breaking the silence: the Catholic Church in Argentina and the "dirty war", July 28, 2005 (concerning the Cité catholique fundamentalist group, etc.)
