Horacio Verbitsky

Who is Horacio Verbitsky?

Horacio Verbitsky is an Argentine left-wing investigative journalist and author with a past history as a leftist guerrilla. In the early 1990s, he reported on a series corruption scandals in the administration of President Carlos Menem, which eventually led to the resignations or firings of many of Menem's ministers. In 1994, he reported on the confessions of naval officer Adolfo Scilingo, documenting torture and executions by the Argentine military during the 1976–83 Dirty War. His books on both the Menem administration and the Scilingo confessions became national bestsellers.

He writes for the Argentine newspaper Página/12 and heads the Center for Legal and Social Studies, an Argentine human-rights organization.