Horacio Verbitsky was born on February 11,1942 and is an Argentine investigative journalist and author with a history as a leftist guerrilla in the Montoneros.
15 Facts About Horacio Verbitsky
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La biografia inesperada de Horacio Verbitsky, documenting Verbitsky's work with the Argentine military during the period of state terror.
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Horacio Verbitsky was born in Buenos Aires in 1942 and he is the son of the Argentinean journalist and writer Bernardo Horacio Verbitsky.
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Horacio Verbitsky has become known by the nickname "el Perro", for his determination in uncovering stories.
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Horacio Verbitsky stated that he had no important functions in the Montoneros organization, although former Montoneros commanders Juan Zverko, Rodolfo Galimberti and Carlos Patane have claimed otherwise.
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Horacio Verbitsky is criticized by Gabriel Levinas because "people who worked with Verbitsky in Montoneros were kidnapped and tortured, the dictatorship did not even ring his doorbell".
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Horacio Verbitsky admitted to an English journalist in an interview that he himself was the author of this publication.
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Horacio Verbitsky later played a role in reporting "Milkgate", a scandal in which Menem's private secretary Miguel Angel Vicco was linked to the sale of spoiled milk to a government agency, forcing his resignation.
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In 1992, Horacio Verbitsky published a compilation of the Menem administration's scandals titled I Steal for the Crown, a quip reportedly from Interior Minister Jose Luis Manzano.
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Horacio Verbitsky met with Verbitsky for several taped sessions telling him "We did terrible things there, worse than the Nazis".
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Scilingo was the first member of the Argentine military to speak openly about the human rights abuses of the military junta that ruled during those years, and his testimony, published by Horacio Verbitsky, elevated the stories of torture from opposition claims to generally accepted truth.
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Horacio Verbitsky wrote for the newspaper El Pais ; The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
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Horacio Verbitsky made news in March 2013 due to his critical book about Pope Francis' alleged involvement with two priests who were tortured during the Dirty War.
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Horacio Verbitsky did not have the support of the local Jewish community, and he had circumvented the judge who had long presided over the AMIA case.
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Horacio Verbitsky described the move to create a truth commission with Iran as an ingenuous attempt to push forward the quest for justice, though he acknowledges that will now be difficult.