Pablo Avelluto

Argentina Platform/ARCO: The program Argentina Plataform/ARCO aimed at having Argentina as a Guest of Honor Country at the ARCOmadrid2017, a parallel program that would account for the richness and dynamism of our contemporary culture. The Ministry of Culture of the Nation, within the framework of one of its objectives -the promotion of Argentine culture in all its expressions- publicly accepted the invitation proposal in February 2016 and received the formal invitation in October of that year. year. Thereby, Argentina Platform / ARCO took visual arts, literature, cinema, theater, performances and music to 22 institutions in Madrid and had an audience of more than 170 thousand people. In March 2017 the representatives Rodolfo Tailhade and Liliana Mazure (FPV) launched a complaint against Avelluto. The case fell into the hands of Judge Sebastián Casanello, who opened an investigation on the public hirings for the fair by the Ministry of Culture. To this end, the prosecutor promotes research on documents that are on public records, such as resolution 16/16 . by which the hirings for the realization of shows abroad were carried out. Meanwhile, days before the start of the fair Avelluto himself explained in an interview with the site Infobae.com the details of the preparation for Argentina's participation. There he said that the selection of artists and gallerists responded to search criteria for the contemporary, regardless of the political affiliation or sympathy of the creators

In addition, in order to increase bibliographic diversity, favor freedom of choice of Argentinian readers and facilitate the exchange between the local publishing industry and international markets, the ministers for Culture, Pablo Avelluto, and for Production, Francisco Cabrera, announced in January 2016 the lifting of restrictions that prevented the entry of books printed abroad.

In the October elections of 2015, he was elected as Parlasur representative for the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, after leading the ballot in PRO. After taking office as President of the Nation, on 10 December 2015 Mauricio Macri appointed Avelluto as Minister for Culture of the Nation.

On 10 December 2015, he took office as Minister for Culture of the Nation. Innovation, creativity, federalism and consensus among the Argentinian people stand out as the main focus points in his administration. has three subsecretaries: Culture and Creativity (Enrique Avogadro), Cultural Cooperation (Iván Petrella) and Cultural Heritage (Marcelo Panozzo).

In June 2015 the government presented the Report El estado del Estado (The state of the State), which sought to carry out "a diagnosis of the National State in December 2015 and identify the pending challenges, which sometimes coincide with mistakes or excesses of the immediately previous administration, but often show long-standing Argentinian frustrations, sometimes even decades old."

In the section on the situation inherited at the Ministry, the Report stated that "the main characteristics of the Ministry of Culture were disorder and administrative inefficiency. This was verified, for example, with the existence of unpaid debts for 156 million pesos. Another central aspect was the excessive hiring of personnel in the last year of the previous administration, in which the central management of the ministry went from 3,000 to 4,064 employees only in 2015, among different employment categories. Several dozens of these hirings were made in the last hours before the change of government.”

In 2014 he was appointed General Coordinator of the Public Media System of the City of Buenos Aires, which includes the radios AM 1110 (the city radio) and FM 2x4, the city channel, the Cultural Agenda and La Agenda, a magazine of ideas and culture in the city founded during his term.

Between 2004 and 2005 he was Vice-President of the Argentine Chamber of Publications.

His career in the book industry, which started in 1993, included various positions in publishing houses such as Espasa Calpe, Grupo Editorial Planeta and Editorial Sudamericana, Random House Mondadori. He also worked in educational publishing houses such as Ángel Estrada & Co. and magazines such as Torneos y Competencias. During his term as Editorial Director of the Southern Region at Random House Mondadori, between 2005 and 2012, he was responsible for the publication of more than four thousand works of different genres and authors, half of which were of Argentine origin. Among the local authors published during his administration are Horacio Verbitsky, Jorge Lanata, Beatriz Sarlo, Ricardo Forster, Marcos Aguinis, Jorge Asís, Jorge Fernández Díaz, Maitena Burundarena, Pacho O'Donnell and Juan José Sebreli.

Alejandro Pablo Avelluto (born 18 February 1966 in Buenos Aires) is a journalist and book editor who held the office of Minister for Culture of Argentina since 10 December 2015 to September 2018, appointed by Mauricio Macri. Between 2014 and 2015 he served as General Coordinator of the Public Media System of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.

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