Ana Baron

Ana Carmen Baron Supervielle (19 January 1950 – 21 August 2015[1]) was an Argentine writer and journalist, a correspondent for Clarín in her last 15 years.[2]

Ana Baron
Born
Ana Carmen Baron Supervielle

(1950-01-19)19 January 1950
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died21 August 2015(2015-08-21) (aged 65)
New York City, United States
NationalityArgentine
Alma materFondation National Sciences Politiques
OccupationWriter, journalist
Spouse(s)Pablo Spiller
AwardsKing of Spain International Journalism Prize

Biography

The violent political turbulence of Argentina in the 1970s led Ana Baron to settle in Paris, where she graduated from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and the Fondation National Sciences Politiques.[1] In those years she became a correspondent of Editorial Atlántida, together with her colleagues Danielle Raymond and Silvina Lanús.[3]

Beginning in 1985, she resided in the United States. Her colleagues recalled an anecdote from 1986:

When José López Rega was arrested in Miami, a group of Argentines went to the jail to try to interview him. That monster did not want to give interviews and journalists were invited to leave the area, accompanied by an artillery jeep. A few kilometers away, those on television turned on their cameras for other colleagues to give testimony. Ana, with her voice that sometimes knew stridency, proclaimed: "Oh, no. When journalists interview journalists, it's time to go home." She got into her car and they did not see her anymore.[3]

In the 1990s, she joined the already created Journalists' Association of Argentina, of which she was a member until November 2004, when she was part of the collective that resigned before its imminent dissolution.[4]

From 1998 to 2013, she was the Washington, D.C. correspondent of the Buenos Aires newspaper Clarín, for which she had been a columnist in preceding years from New York.

In 1999, she was part of the group awarded by King Juan Carlos for an investigation in the Clarín supplement Zona[5] on the secret reports of the US Embassy.[2][6]

Baron covered Bill Clinton's presidential campaigns, George W. Bush's presidency, and the rise of Barack Obama.

She had broad access to State Department sources, and her articles made it clear that what was sometimes taken in Buenos Aires as support from Washington, was not.[3]

She was sent to international summits: those of the presidents of the region, those of the Group of 20, and the assemblies of the IMF, among others. Her notes on Bush's reaction to the Mar del Plata summit in 2005 anticipated the fall of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), a scoop reprinted by newspapers around the world.[3][7]

Radio

Baron was part of the program Corresponsales en línea on the Buenos Aires station Radio de la Ciudad (1110 AM) on Sundays from 10 am to 12 pm, along with Silvia Naishtat (Buenos Aires), Sofía Neiman (Buenos Aires), Paula Lugones (Washington), Silvia Pisani (Washington), Danielle Raymond (Paris), and María Laura Avignolo (Paris/London).[8]

Personal life

Baron married the economist Pablo Spiller. She was the sister of writer Silvia Barón Supervielle and the cousin of writer Odile Baron Supervielle.[1]

She died from cancer in New York City on 21 August 2015 at age 65.[1][2]

Books
  • Les Enjeux de la guerre des Malouines (The Stakes of the Falklands War), 680 pages (1988)[1]
  • Bill Clinton: Keys to Understand His Government[1]
  • Why Are They Gone? A Study on the Argentinean Exile, Emecé Editores, Buenos Aires, ISBN 9789500414906 (1995)[2]

References
  1. Pisani, Silvia (22 August 2015). "Ana Barón: la periodista que unió lucidez con generosidad" [Ana Barón: The Journalist Who United Lucidity with Generosity]. La Nación (in Spanish). Washington D.C. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  2. "Murió la periodista Ana Barón" [The Journalist Ana Barón Dies]. Infobae (in Spanish). 21 August 2015. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  3. "Ana Baron, una periodista incansable que fue puro talento" [Ana Baron, a Tireless Journalist Who was Pure Talent]. Clarín (in Spanish). 21 August 2015. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  4. "Se disolvió la Asociación Periodistas" [The Journalists' Association Dissolves]. Diario Sobre Diarios (in Spanish). 12 November 2004. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  5. Amato, Alberto; Seoane, Maria; Muleiro, Vicente (1 November 1998). "Anatomía de un golpe" [Anatomy of a Coup]. Clarín Zona (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  6. "Argentina's Ana Baron, King of Spain Journalism Prize winner, dies". Fox News Latino. EFE. 21 August 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-08-23. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  7. Baron, Ana (2 August 2005). "La ofensiva de Bush en el comercio internacional" [Bush's Offensive on International Trade]. Rebelion.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  8. "AIRE para 'Corresponsales en línea'" (in Spanish). City of Buenos Aires. 22 May 2014. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
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