Adriana Puiggrós
Puiggrós in 2011
Puiggrós in 2011
Born (1941-09-12) September 12, 1941
Buenos Aires, Argentina
OccupationPolitician, writer and academic

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

Life

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

  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. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  3. ↑ "Puiggrós, asesora presidencial: "No tiene sentido empezar las clases en febrero "". www.lanacion.com.ar (in Spanish). 2021-01-16. Retrieved 2021-02-09.


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