Adriana Puiggrós

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

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

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]

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.


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