Adriana Puiggrós


Adriana Puiggrós is an Argentine writer, academic and politician.
Puiggrós was born in Buenos Aires in 1941. Her father was 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.
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.