Ambassador to the US Hector Timerman of Argentina
Héctor Timerman is the current ambassador of Argentina to the United States.
Timerman was interviewed at the Argentine Embassy here last month following a memorial service marking the 14th anniversary of the terrorist attack that destroyed the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.
Among other things, Jacobo Timerman was accused of masterminding a plot to establish a Jewish homeland in the remote Patagonia region of southern Argentina.
Shortly after his fathers arrest, Hector Timerman was granted political asylum by the US.
Timerman is not the first Jew to serve as Argentinas ambassador in Washington.
To that end, Timerman said he is confident that his boss, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, is determined to go to the bare bones to find who carried out the AMIA attack.
PICTURED: Ambassador Hector Timerman is pictured in the Embassy of Argentina.
return encodeURIComponent(' Twenty-six years ago, as a young political refugee from Argentina, Hector Timerman was afraid to ask police officers for directions.
Twenty-six years ago, as a young political refugee from Argentina, Hector Timerman was afraid to ask police officers for directions.
Timerman is well aware of the diplomatic risks of producing the free 115-page guide, which answers 195 questions in Spanish about negotiating life in the city, or as he puts it, ''from where to buy Argentine pizza to how to complain about police brutality.
Without a Name, Cell Without a Number.
Timerman said in a press conference in the Casa Rosada that preliminary approval of the project, “was unanimous among republican and democrat representatives,” and included, “the opening of secret archives about themes linked to the coup of 1976, to Operation Condor, and the appropriation of babies in Argentina.
Jacobo Timerman was born on January 6, 1923, in Bar, a town in the Soviet Ukraine.
Although originally a student of engineering, Timerman turned to journalism in the 1940s, a period of intense political turmoil in Argentina.
Ambassador Timerman has served as the consul general of Argentina and director of the Promotion Center in New York since July of 2004.
Ambassador Timerman was cofounder and board member of Human Rights Watch.
Timerman was born in Buenos Aires on December 16, 1953.
Ambassador Hector Timerman assured a group of Los Angeles Jewish leaders at a black-tie dinner last month that the Argentina he represents is not his father's Argentina.
His transgressions were especially heinous, in the eyes of the junta, because Timerman was a Jew.
In an interview during his recent visit, Timerman said that the Argentinean Jewish community of 250,000 remained one of the strongest in the Diaspora after "suffering a lot during the military dictatorship," which ruled from 1976 to 1983.
While acknowledging the increase, Timerman said that almost all the incidents consisted of graffiti and swastika daubings, were unorganized, and seemed in line with a rise in anti-Semitism throughout much of the world.
At 53, Argentine Ambassador Hector Timerman is one of South America's top diplomats; recently promoted from consul to New York to the prized post of envoy to the United States, he bears one of the most famous last names in modern South American history.
Ambassador Timerman has served as the Consul General of Argentina since July of 2004.
An author and journalist, Ambassador Timerman has been a consultant for Public Affairs Analyst and Editorial Director of Latin American Finance.
Thirty years ago, Héctor Timerman was an angry young political refugee who would spend his days picketing the Argentine Embassy off Dupont Circle, demanding that the military dictatorship release his father from prison.
Timerman said that during the meeting they did not discuss any proposals regarding a possible re-negotiation of the Argentine debt with the Paris Club, an obstacle for Argentina to have access to international soft credits.
Timerman was working on his memoirs in his Buenos Aires apartment four years ago when he died of a heart attack.
Héctor Timerman is the Consul General of Argentina in New York.
Ambassador Timerman was cofounder and board member of Human Rights Watch, and the son of Jacobo Timerman, an outspoken journalist, who was imprisoned, tortured and held under house arrest in Argentina for 30 months in the 1970s, an experience detailed in the 1981 book, Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number.
Timerman is the first witness in two weeks of testimony to assert that Von Wernich saw firsthand physical acts of torture.
Timerman was eventually released and expelled from the country, escaping to Israel.
Several other witnesses have testified that Timerman was victim to anti-Semitic torture.
After his fathers eventual release, Hctor Timerman lived in exile in the United States from 1978 to 1984, during which time he lectured on human rights in New York and earned a masters degree in international affairs from Columbia University.
Ambassador Timerman is also co-author of the 2005 book Torture, and his affiliations with international institutions include: cofounder and board member of Human Rights Watch in New York (1981-89); director of the Fund for Free Expression in London (1983-89); member of the Board of Directors of the Asamblea Permanente por los Derechos Humanos (Permanent Assembly for Human Rights) in Buenos Aires (2002-04); and president of the Board of Directors of the International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience.
Ambassador Timerman is married to Argentine architect Anabelle Sielecki, and they have two daughters, Amanda and Jordana.
On 15 April 1977, Timerman was arrested by the military.
After his release from prison in September 1979, Timerman was forced into exile and sent to Tel Aviv, Israel.
In 1980, Timerman was awarded the Golden Pen of Freedom by the World Association of Newspapers in recognition of his courage in defending the right to free expression and press freedom.
Daniel Timerman lives in Israel with his three children.