Adriana Puiggrós | |
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Born | (1941-09-12) September 12, 1941 (age 82) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Occupation | Politician, writer and academic |
Adriana Puiggrós (born September 12, 1941) is an Argentine writer, academic and politician.
Puiggrós was born in Buenos Aires in 1941. Her father was Rodolfo Puiggrós [ es] 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]
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