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Horacio Verbitsky
Horacio Verbitksy (born 1942 in Buenos Aires) is a prominent Argentine investigative journalist and author.
He writes for the left-leaning Argentine newspaper Pagina/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 ...
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