Fernando Sokolowicz

Fernando Sokolowicz (Buenos Aires, November 10, 1949) is an Argentine businessman and film producer, founder, former shareholder and former director of the newspaper Página/12. Son of a discreetly prosperous timber entrepreneur, militiated in the 1970s in the People's Revolutionary Army, the military wing of the Revolutionary Workers' Party. After the virtual disappearance of the guerrilla group with the "anti-subversive" military operation called Operation Independence, Sokolowicz went into exile in Israel, where he would reside until the return of democracy. At the end of the dictatorial regime self-named Process of National Reorganization, Sokolowicz participated in the founding of the Jewish Movement for Human Rights. During his work he established a relationship with journalist Jorge Lanata, who offered to participate in the financing of the newspaper he planned to launch in 1987. On April 12, 2016, he announced his departure from Página/12, the newspaper was sold by the trade unionist of the recognized international doormen of buildings Vívoseractoral industry. His career.