José María Pasquini Durán (1939 – 13 February 2010) was an Argentine journalist, writer, teacher and political analyst.
[1][2] In 1960, he started to work as freelance editor in union newspapers, one of them were the "CGT de los Argentinos" of Raimundo Ongaro, in which redaction was mate of Rodolfo Walsh.
He was also secretary of the redaction of the Colombian newspaper La Opinión, of Jacobo Timerman, El Periodista and Página 12, where he was politic editorialist since its foundation in 1987.
Pasquini Durán was a creative part of the miniserie Men in Conflict a rarity by Canal 7 Argentina commissioned by a sector of military hoping to show that in those hard times as Juan Manuel de Rosas with battles between units and federals, could also have agreements: Together with José María Pasquini Durán and Roberto Cossa (also prohibited by the dictatorship), the screenwriters should overcome one of the biggest challenges: talk about what they are asked to say, but use all the possible strategies for the eye of the censor don't see what the spectator would see.
He worked in Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guyana, Italia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Venezuela.