1. Mariana de Jesus Zuvic was born on 18 October 1974 and is an Argentine politician.
10 Facts About Mariana Zuvic
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Mariana Zuvic served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2019 to 2023.
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Mariana Zuvic is a member of the Mercosur parliament for Argentina, representing the Cambiemos bloc as vice-president of the Civic Coalition ARI party.
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Mariana Zuvic was born in Rio Gallegos, Santa Cruz in 1974.
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Mariana Zuvic's father, Angel Miguel Zuvic, was a pianist and businessman who had presided the Chamber of Commerce of the Santa Cruz province.
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Mariana Zuvic attended public elementary and secondary schools in Santa Cruz before enrolling in Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona to study political science.
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Mariana Zuvic entered politics in 2007 and, with the help of Civic Coalition ARI leader Elisa Carrio, founded the Santa Cruz faction of the party to offer an alternative to Nestor Kirchner's corrupt governance, which had ruled the province for more than two decades.
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Mariana Zuvic spent much of her career uncovering the Kirchners' corruption in her native Santa Cruz.
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In 2018, Mariana Zuvic published her debut book The Origin: An intimate history of the making of Nestor and Cristina Kirchner as Santa Cruz politicians, in which she revealed the "institutional destruction, social decomposition, and corruption" that the presidential couple had inflicted on her native Santa Cruz in first-person narrative.
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Mariana Zuvic is a close friend of Argentine lawmaker Elisa Carrio, who Zuvic said had been influential in the formative years of her political career.