Adriana Puiggrós Explained

Adriana Puiggrós
Birth Date:12 September 1941
Birth Place:Buenos Aires, Argentina
Occupation:Politician, 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 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]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Jesper Eckhardt Larsen. Knowledge, Politics and the History of Education. 2012. LIT Verlag Münster. 978-3-8258-1561-5. 164–165.
  2. Web site: Adriana Puiggrós es la nueva Presidenta del Frente Grande. Frente Grande. 17 December 2011. 3 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030512/http://www.frentegrande.org.ar/2011/12/17/adriana-puiggros-es-la-nueva-presidenta-del-frente-grande/. 4 March 2016. dead.
  3. Web site: 2021-01-16. Puiggrós, asesora presidencial: "No tiene sentido empezar las clases en febrero ". 2021-02-09. www.lanacion.com.ar. es.